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and  History  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  LIBRART 

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JAN  2  6  1917 


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THE  TITLE  PAGE 

THE  FOREWORD 

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-MARKET  SQUARE" 

"FAIRLAWN  •" 

"THE  EVERGREENS" 

"THE  LILACS" 

"  NGLESIDE" 

"MERRIE  MEADE" 

THE  McGANN  SUMMER  HOME 

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2    "BOWOOD" 

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"LOST  ROCK" 

"BROAD  LEA" 

"ARDLEIGH" 

"WALDEN" 

"STONE  GATE  ROAD  ENTRANCE" 

"LITTLE  ORCHARD" 

9    GLIMPSES  OF  LAKE  FOREST  GARDENS 
THE  McKINLOCK  ESTATE 

"LINDEN  LODGE" 

"WESTMORELAND" 

"IOKA"     -, 

"BRIAR  HALL" 

FOREST  PARK 

"MELODY  FARM" 

MOONLIGHT  ON  LAKE  MICHIGAN 
GEO  D  MCLAUGHLIN  SUMMER  HOME 

"THORNEHURST" 

THE  DRUMMOND  HOMES 

"PINEWOLD" 

"MEADES1DE" 

6    VILLA  OF  HAROLD  F.  McCORMICK 

68  "LANDSDOWNE" 

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70  "CLINOLA" 

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72    THE  HARDIN  SUMMER  HOME  . 

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74  "WEST  HIGHLANDS" 

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76    THE  McLENNAN  ESTATE 

78    THE  MARK  ESTATE 

80  "HAVEN  WOOD" 
83  "SOUTH  ENTRANCE"  OF  LAKE  FOREST 
84    THE  JOSEPH  M.  CUDAHY  ESTATE 

86  "DESBRO  HOUSE" 

88    THE  KELLEY  ESTATE 

90    ONWENTSIA  CLUB 
92    CONVENT  OF  THE  SACRED  HEART 

94    FERRY  HALL 

96    LAKE  FOREST  ACADEMY 

98    LAKE  FOREST  COLLEGE 
9       REID  MEMORIAL  CHAPEL  AND  LIBRARY 

0      BLACKSTONE  HALL 

0       HISTORICAL  SKETCHbyloM.Halsey.LLD. 

10       THE  QUINLAN  PLACE 

10      THE  CHURCHES 
0      THE  CLOISTER  OF  REID  MEMORIAL  CHAPEL 

11       CITY  HALL  AND  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

1         OLD  GREEN  BAY  P.OAD 

1        JOHN  J.  HALSEY  SCHOOL 

EDWARD  F.  GORTON  SCHOOL 

A  LAKE  FOREST  VISTA 
THE  HOLT  PLACE  FROM  THE  COLLEGE  GATES 

OLD  ELM  CLUB 

1        "WINTER" 

1        STATUTE  OF  "THE  SUN  VOW- 

ON  THE  OLD  FARWELL  ESTATE 

I        THE  ARMOUR  BRIDGE 

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SPECIAL  PHOTOGRAPHS  BY   JAQUES   PRATT 


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Foreword 


THE  AIM  OF  THIS  LITTLE  BOOK  IS  TO  PRESENT 
A  PERMANENT  AND  REPRESENTATIVE  RECORD 
OF  THOSE  THINGS  WHICH  MAKE  LAKE 
FOREST  A  DISTINCTIVE  AND  INTERESTING 
COMMUNITY  -  -  TO  PERPETUATE  THEM  IN 
A  FORM  IN  KEEPING  WITH  THE  SUBJECT. 
THE  UNUSUAL  COMBINATION  OF  RARE 
NATURAL  BEAUTY  AND  THE  ARTISTIC  TREAT- 
MENT OF  HOMES,  GARDENS  AND  PUBLIC 
PLACES,  IS  OF  MORE  THAN  LOCAL  INTEREST. 
TO  COMMUNITY  CO-OPERATION  AND  INTEREST 
IN  ART  IS  DUE  THE  SUCCESS  ATTAINED 
IN  SETTING  A  HIGH  STANDARD  FOR  LOCAL 
PUBLICATIONS. 

WE  DESIRE  TO  EXPRESS  OUR  SINCERE 
APPRECIATION  TO  RALPH  RODNEY  ROOT, 
IN  CHARGE  OF  THE  PROFESSIONAL  COURSE  IK 
LANDSCAPE  ARCHITECTURE,  UNIVERSITY  OF 
ILLINOIS,  FOR  HIS  VALUED  COMMENT  UPON 
MANY  OF  THE  ESTATES;  TO  PROFESSOR  JOHN 
J.  HALSEY  OF  LAKE  FOREST  COLLEGE,  "THE 
MAN  WHO  KNOWS  THE  MOST  ABOUT  LAKE 
FOREST,"  FOR  HIS  HISTORICAL  SKETCH;  TO 
HOWARD  VAN  DOREN  SHAW  FOR  HIS  MOST 
INTERESTING  DESCRIPTION  OF  "MARKET 
SQUARE,"  AND  TO  THE  OTHERS  WHO  HAVE 
LIKEWISE  GIVEN  OF  THEIR  TIME  AND  WORK 
IN  HELPING  US  DO  JUSTICE  TO  LAKE  FOREST. 
THIS  IS  TRULY  A  BOOK  BY  LAKE  FORESTERS 
FOR  LAKE  FOREST. 

MERLE    N.    ALDERMAN. 


Market  Square 

BY   HOWARD  VAN  DOREN  SHAW,  ARCHITECT 

MARKET  SQUARE  IS  THE  NAME  OF  LAKE 
FOREST'S  NEW  BUSINESS  DISTRICT,  A  BUSI- 
NESS DISTRICT  UNIQUE  AMONG  AMERICAN 
CITIES.  THE  SQUARE  HAS  FOUR  ROWS  OF 
ELMS  RUNNING  THROUGH  THE  CENTER  AND 
AT  THE  EAST  END  IS  LOCATED  A  GREAT 
FOUNTAIN.  THE  STONE  BUILDING  DOM- 
INATING THE  WEST  END  OF  THE  SQUARE  HAS 
COLUMNS  RUNNING  ITS  ENTIRE  HEIGHT  OF 
TWO  STORIES.  IN  IT  ARE  LOCATED  THE 
FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK,  THE  PUBLIC  UTILI- 
TIES COMPANIES,  AND  THE  YOUNG  WOMEN'S 
CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION.  ON  EITHER  SIDE 
ARE  PICTURESQUE  SHOPS  IN  ENGLISH  VIL- 
LAGE STYLE,  WITH  QUAINT  GALLERIES  AND 
TWO  TOWERS,  ONE  WITH  THE  SUN  DIAL; 
THE  OTHER  CONTAINING  THE  GREAT  CLOCK. 


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HOBART    C.  CHATFIELD-TAYLOR 

DEER     PATH 

"Pairlawn" 

MANY  OF  THE  AMERICAN  PLANS  OF  THE 
PERIOD  1865-1892  HAVE  LONG  SINCE  BEEN 
CHANGED  TO  MAKE  ROOM  FOR  NEW  IM- 
PROVEMENTS, BUT  "FAIRLAWN,"  THE  HOME 

OF  THE  FARWELLS,  STILL  REMAINS  MUCH 
AS  ORIGINALLY  PLANNED  FOR  THEM  BY 
MR.  FREDERICK  LAW  OLMSTED  IN  1869. 
THIS  IS  ONE  OF  THE  FEW  ESTATES  OF  LAKE 
FOREST  THAT  HAS  BEEN  RETAINED  WITHIN 
THE  FAMILY.  THE  WELL-PLANNED  SUR- 
ROUNDINGS OF  FOREST  PARK,  THE  LONG, 
SHADED  ENTRANCE  DRIVE,  WOODS,  INTER- 
ESTING POND,  AND  GARDENS  TESTIFY  TO 
THE  INBORN  GENIUS  OF  THIS  MASTER  OF 
LANDSCAPE  ART.  LAKE  FOREST  CAN  INDEED 
BE  PROUD  OF  THIS  ATTRACTIVE  OLD  ESTATE 
WHICH  WAS  ONE  OF  THE  FIRST  TO  CULTIVATE 
LANDSCAPE.  THIS  WELL  ORGANIZED  PLAN 
HAS  TAKEN  ON  AN  ESTABLISHED  ATMOSPHERE 
AND  HAS  FOR  A  HALF-CENTURY  PROVED  ITS 
VALUE. 


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CAPT.  I.  P.  RUMSEY 

DEER    PATH 

"The  Evergreens" 

THE  ORIGINAL  HOUSE  ON  THIS  OLD  HOME- 
STEAD WAS  BUILT  IN  1859  (ONE  OF  THE 
FIRST  TO  BE  OCCUPIED  IN  LAKE  FOREST), 
AND  THE  PRESENT  RESIDENCE  IN  1870. 
THE  GROUNDS  WERE  ORIGINALLY  LAID  OUT 
WITH  GREAT  CARE  AND  TASTE  AND  THE 
PRESENT  OWNERS  HAVE  BEEN  ABLE  TO 
RETAIN  MANY  OF  THE  EARLY  FEATURES. 
THE  LONG  SWEEP  OF  CAREFULLY  CLIPPED 
LAWN,  THE  ABUNDANCE  OF  SHADE  AND 
WELL  KEPT  DRIVES  ARE  FEATURES  OF  THIS 
HISTORIC  PLACE,  WHILE  TO  THE  EAST  AND 
WEST  THERE  STILL  REMAIN  SOME  OF  THE 
MAGNIFICENT  OLD  TREES  THAT  SEEM  TO 
HAVE  GUARDED  THE  PLACE  FOR  CENTURIES. 
THESE,  WITH  THE  PLEASANT  GARDENS, 
MAKE  ONE  APPRECIATE  WHAT  NATURE 
AND  THE  FINGER  OF  TIME  MAY  DO  FOR  A 
PLACE  IN  OUR  NEW  WEST.  "THE  EVER- 
GREENS" HAS  BEEN  A  PLACE  OF  REUNION 
FOR  THE  MEMBERS  OF  CAPTAIN  RUMSEY'S 
FAMOUS  BATTERY,  KNOWN  AS  TAYLOR'S 
BATTERY,  AND  THE  VETERANS  WITH  THEIR 
FAMILIES  HAVE  ON  NUMEROUS  OCCASIONS 
ENJOYED  ITS  HOSPITALITY.  HERE,  TOO, 
ORGANIZATIONS  WHICH  HAVE  MEANT  MUCH 
TO  THE  WHOLE  NORTH  SHORE  HAVE  HAD 
THEIR  INITIAL  MEETINGS.  IT  IS  INDEED 
A  CENTER  OF  WIDE  INFLUENCE  IN  THE 
COMMUNITY. 


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MRS.  SIMON   REID 

SHERIDAN    ROAD 

"The  Lilacs" 

SOMETHING  OVER  40  YEARS  AGO  "THE 
LILACS"  WAS  OPENED  ON  SHERIDAN  ROAD 
NEAR  THE  COLLEGE.  THE  GENEROUS  LINES 
OF  THE  HOUSE,  THE  MAJESTIC  OAKS  OF 
THE  ORIGINAL  FOREST,  AND  EVEN  THE 
NAME  "LILACS"  CHARACTERIZE  THIS  INTER- 
ESTING PLACE.  THE  ORIGINAL  HOUSE  WAS 
OF  THE  STYLE  OF  THE  EARLY  7o's,  BUT 
SINCE  THEN  THE  ADDITION  OF  A  LARGE  OPEN 
LIVING  PORCH  ON  THE  SOUTH  OVERLOOKING 
THE  GARDEN  AND  ARBOUR  HAS  MODERNIZED 
THE  GENERAL  LINES  OF  THE  HOME.  "THE 
LILACS"  HAS  BEEN  CLOSELY  CONNECTED 
WITH  THE  COLLEGE,  WHICH  HAS  FELT  ITS 
CONTINUOUS  INTEREST  AND  INFLUENCE  FOR 
MANY  YEARS. 


R.  H.  McELWEE 

LAKE    ROAD 

"Ingleside" 

"INGLESIDE"  ONE  OF  THE  OLDEST  AND  BEST 
ARRANGED  PLACES  OF  LAKE  FOREST  HAS 
MANY  CHARMS  BOTH  IN  STYLE  OF  ARCHI- 
TECTURE AND  LANDSCAPE  DESIGN,  AND 
WITHAL  AN  ATMOSPHERE  OF  QUAINTNESS. 
THERE  ARE  SEVERAL  GARDENS  OF  CURIOUS 
DESIGN,  EACH  ENCLOSED  BY  AN  ARBORVI- 
TAE  HEDGE  HALF  A  CENTURY  OLD,  REMIND- 
ING ONE  OF  THE  GARDENS  OF  SCOTLAND. 
NUMEROUS  RARE  TREES  OF  DIFFERENT 
VARIETIES,  INCLUDING  CAMPERDOWN  ELM, 
KENTUCKY  COFFEE,  WHITE  BUTTERNUT, 
WATER  CUCUMBER,  AND  WHITE  PINE,  ADD 
MUCH  DISTINCTION  TO  THE  PLACE.  THE 
STYLE  OF  THE  HOUSE  IS  COLONIAL,  AND  THE 
FIREPLACES  WITH  OTHER  COLONIAL  EFFECTS, 
FORM  A  MOST  PLEASING  FEATURE  OF  AN 
INTERIOR  WHICH  IS  FULL  OF  CHARM. 


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CORNELIUS    M.  TROWBRIDGE 

MAYFLOWER    ROAD 

"Merrie  Meade" 

"MERRIE  MEADE,"  THE  HOME  OF  THE 
CALVIN  DURAND  FAMILY  FOR  MANY  YEARS, 
IS  INDEED  WELL  NAMED.  THE  LARGE, 
TREE-SHADED  LAWN,  FULL  OF  BRIGHT 
FLOWERS  AND  SHRUBS,  ADDS  MUCH  TO  THE 
ATTRACTIVENESS  OF  THE  OLD  PLACE.  THE 
WHOLE  ARRANGEMENT  SEEMS  TO  HAVE 
BEEN  MADE  TO  EMPHASIZE  THE  DEEP 
RAVINE  WHICH  BORDERS  THE  ESTATE  ON 
THE  SOUTH  AND  WEST  SIDES.  THE  USE  OF 
FRUIT  TREES  AS  A  PART  OF  THE  LANDSCAPE 
PLAN  IS  A  MOST  ATTRACTIVE  DETAIL,  AND 
WITH  THE  MANY  FLOWERS,  MAKE  THIS 
QUITE  LIKE  THE  "MERRIE  MEADE"  OF  THE 
EARLY  ENGLISH  GARDENS.  THE  HOME  WAS 
BUILT  IN  1875  AND  ITS  INTERESTS  HAVE 
EVER  SINCE  BEEN  ASSOCIATED  WITH  THE 
PROMOTION  OF  ALL  THAT  IS  BEST  IN  LAKE 
FOREST.  THE  CHARMING  RESIDENCE  IS 
FEATURED  BY  SPACIOUS  PORCHES. 


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ROBERT      G.  McGANN 
LAKE   ROAD 

A  COLONIAL  HOUSE  OF  EXTENSIVE  PROPOR- 
TIONS IS  LOCATED  NEAR  THE  LAKE  ON  THE 
OLD  FARWELL  ESTATE.  ITS  RAMBLING 
CHARACTER  IS  WELL  ADAPTED  TO  THE 
SURROUNDINGS.  SECLUDED  IN  THE  MIDST 
OF  WOODLANDS,  ON  A  POINT  BETWEEN 
TWO  OF  LAKE  FOREST'S  DEEPEST  RAVINES. 
THIS  PLACE  PROVIDES  AN  IDEAL  SPOT  FOR 
THE  SUMMER'S  REST  AND  PLEASURES.  THE 
VIEWS  ARE  OF  GREATER  EXTENT  THAN  ARE 
THOSE  OF  MANY  OF  THE  MORE  THICK- 
LY PLANTED  PLACES  OF  LAKE  FOREST: 
NATURE  HAS  BEEN  CONTROLLED  ONLY 
WHERE  IT  SEEMED  NECESSARY  FOR  CON- 
VENIENCE, THE  RAVINES  HAVING  BEEN 
ALLOWED  TO  RUN  WILD,  GIVING  AN  INCOM- 
PARABLE CHARM  TO  THIS  DELIGHTFUL  HOME. 


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WM.   O.   LINDLEY 

ROSEMARY     ROAD 

"Bowood" 

THE  HOME  OF  MR.  W.  O.  LINDLEY  IS  LIKE  AN 
OLD  ESTATE  IN  ENGLAND  WITH  ITS  MANY 
FEATURES  OF  INTEREST  AND  CHARM.  THE 
PARK  OF  OLD  OAK — CENTURIES  OLD — IN- 
TERSPERSED WITH  A  GREAT  VARIETY  OF 
OTHER  SPECIMEN  TREES,  FURNISHES  VARIED 
AND  DELIGHTFUL  VISTAS  OF  QUITE  REMARK- 
ABLE EXTENT  AND  OF  UNUSUAL  SCENIC 
EFFECT.  EXTENSIVE  ORCHARDS  AND  GARDENS 
SURROUNDED  WITH  MASSIVE  SPRUCE  HEDGES 
CONTRAST  PLEASINGLY  WITH  THE  OLD  MAZE 
AND  THE  DEEP  SHADED  RAVINE,  THE  BREED- 
ING PLACE  OF  PHEASANTS  AND  ALL  KINDS  OF 
SONG  BIRDS.  THE  HOUSE  OF  BRICK  AND 
STONE  CONSTRUCTION  FINISHED  IN  STUCCO 
IS  OF  AN  UNCONVENTIONAL  BUT  PICTURESQUE 
AUTHENTIC  ENGLISH  TYPE,  WHICH  TOGETHER 
WITH  ITS  GROUNDS  HARMONIZES  BEAU- 
TIFULLY AND  STANDS  OUT  AS  A  HOME  OF 
GREAT  DISTINCTION. 


DELEVAN  SMITH 

GREENBAY  ROAD 

"Lost  Rock" 

THE  QUIET  ATMOSPHERE  OF  "LOST  ROCK" 
IS  WELL  WORTH  THE  CAREFUL  THOUGHT 
GIVEN  BY  THE  ARCHITECT  AND  OWNER  IN 
THE  BUILDING  OF  THIS  ATTRACTIVE  HOME. 
THE  BEAUTIFUL  VIEW  OUT  OVER  THE 
SKOKIE  VALLEY,  COMBINED  WITH  THE 
ATTRACTIVE  "GARDEN  IN  THE  GLACIER- 
FORMED  HOLLOW"  AND  THE  UNUSUAL  ROCK, 
THE  LARGEST  IN  LAKE  COUNTY,  AFTER  WHICH 
THE  PLACE  HAS  BEEN  NAMED,  COMBINE  TO 
SECURE  THE  INTEREST  OF  THE  VISITOR. 
THE  SLOPE  OF  THE  LAND  IS  HERE  QUITE 
ABRUPT  AS  IT  SWEEPS  DOWN  TO  THE  SKOKIE 
VALLEY.  THE  WHOLE  SCHEME  IS  WELL 
PROTECTED  FROM  SUN  AND  WIND  BY  THE 
SHELTERING  ELMS  AND  OTHER  TREES.  THE 
HOUSE  IS  AN  EXAMPLE  OF  HOW  VERY  AT- 
TRACTIVE THE  MOST  REFINED  AND  CLASSICAL 
TYPE  OF  BRICK  COLONIAL  ARCHITECTURE 
CAN  BE  MADE  WHEN  CARRIED  CONSISTENTLY 
THROUGHOUT  THE  EXTERIOR  AND  INTERIOR 
OF  A  RESIDENCE.  THE  REMARKABLE  LI- 
BRARY IS  THE  MOST  INTERESTING  FEATURE 
AMONG  MANY  WHICH  MAKE  THIS  HOME 
DISTINCTIVE. 


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EDWARD    F.  CARRY 

GREENBAY    ROAD 

"Broad  Lea" 

A  LOCATION  IN  THE  MIDST  OF  BROAD 
MEADOWS  WHICH  AFFORDS  A  PANORAMIC 
VIEW  OUT  OVER  THE  OPEN  COUNTRY  FROM 
ALMOST  EVERY  WINDOW,  GIVES  TO  "BROAD 
LEA"  A  DISTINCTIVE  CHARM.  THE  SUNSET 
GLOW  OUT  OVER  THE  SKOKIE  ADDS  TO  AN 
IDEAL  SETTING  FOR  A  COUNTRY  HOME. 
AMONG  THE  INTERESTING  FEATURES  OF 
THE  GROUNDS  IS  THE  "CARRY  PLAYHOUSE" 
WHICH  WAS  FORMALLY  OPENED  IN  1903 
BY  MRS.  HOWARD  SHAW'S  PRESENTATION 
OF  SUDERMAN'S  "FARAWAY  PRINCESS." 
THE  UNUSUALLY  ARTISTIC  INTERIOR,  AFTER 
THE  "NUREMBERG  STYLE,"  MAKES  THIS 
ONE  OF  THE  MOST  ATTRACTIVE  PLAYHOUSES 
IMAGINABLE. 


JOHN   V.  FARWELL 

STONEGATE    ROAD 

"Ardleigh" 

DRIVING  THRU  A  STONE  GATEWAY  AND  DEEP 
INTO  THE  WOODS  THAT  LIE  CLOSE  TO  THE 
ROAD  ON  EITHER  SIDE,  ONE  IS  GREETED  BY 
A  COOL  STRETCH  OF  LAWN  OPENING  TOWARD 
A  CHARMING  ENGLISH  HOUSE  WHICH  OVER- 
LOOKS LAKE  MICHIGAN  FROM  A  PROMINENT 
POINT  ON  THE  BLUFF.  THE  BEAUTY  AND 
PRIVACY  OF  THE  PLACE  IS  ENHANCED  BY 
THE  DEEP  RAVINE  TO  THE  LEFT,  ON  THE 
EDGE  OF  WHICH  IS  PERCHED  BLUE  BIRD 
COTTAGE,  A  DELIGHTFUL  LITTLE  COTTAGE 
FOR  CONVALESCENT  CHILDREN.  ANCIENT 
WHITE  OAKS,  SOME  OF  THEM  MORE  THAN 
200  YEARS  OLD,  GUARD  THE  PLACE  AND 
GIVE  A  MOSAIC  OF  SUN  AND  SHADE  TO  THE 
OPEN  SUNNY  LAWN.  THE  CUT  FLOWER 
GARDENS  ARE  EXTENSIVE  AND  FORM  AN 
INTERESTING  FEATURE  WITH  THE  VERY 
MODERN  GARAGE  AND  STABLES. 


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CYRUS    HALL    McCORMICK 

STONEGATE    ROAD 

"Walden" 

"WALDEN,"  ON  THE  BLUFF  OF  LAKE  MICH- 
IGAN, IS  VERITABLY  A  GARDEN  PARADISE 
DEVELOPED  IN  GENERAL  ALONG  INFORMAL 
LINES,  HAVING  FEW  EQUALS.  VISTAS  FROM 
THE  HOUSE  TO  THE  LAKE  AND  WOODS  ARE 
ALL  CAREFULLY  PLANTED  AND  BORDERED 
SO  AS  TO  INCREASE  THE  BEAUTY  OF  THE 
VIEW  AT  THEIR  END.  WITH  THEIR  CANOPY 
OF  INDIGENOUS  TREES  AND  UNDERGROWTH 
OF  SHADE-LOVING  PLANTS,  THE  CHARM  OF 
THE  ACRES  OF  WOODLANDS  GIVE  VISITORS 
A  LASTING  IMPRESSION,  WHILE  CAREFULLY 
PLANNED  WALKS  AND  DRIVES  FASCINATE 
THE  LOVER  OF  PLANTS.  ONE  OF  THE  MOST 
ATTRACTIVE  FEATURES  OF  LAKE  FOREST 
IS  THE  MAIN  DRIVEWAY  TO  "  WALDEN"  CROSS- 
ING A  GREAT  VINE-COVERED  BRIDGE  WHICH 
SPANS  A  LARGE  RAVINE  FROM  WHICH  ONE 
GETS  GLIMPSES  OF  THE  FAMOUS  RAVINE 
DRIVE.  THE  HOUSE  HARMONIZES  WITH  THE 
GENERAL  SETTING.  IT  IS  A  RAMBLING 
DUTCH  STRUCTURE,  ITS  FIRST  STORY  OF 
RAIN-DROPPED  BRICK  AND  THE  UPPER  WALLS 
COVERED  WITH  ANTIQUE  SHINGLE  TILE  OF 
A  DARK  MOTTLED  TONE,  THE  WHOLE  GIVING 
THE  EFFECT  OF  HAVING  BEEN  BUILT  FOR 
GENERATIONS. 


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ALFRED   L.  BAKER 

MAYFLOWER    ROAD 

"Little  Orchard" 

AFTER  A  WALK  UNDERNEATH  THE  ANCIENT 
OAKS  AND  THORN  TREES  AND  THROUGH  THE 
OLD-FASHIONED  GARDEN,  DOWN  THE  STONE 
STEPS  INTO  THE  RAVINES,  AND  BACK  AGAIN 
TO  THE  NEW  ENGLAND  COLONIAL  HOUSE 
WITH  ITS  GREEN  BLINDS  WHERE  THE  BIG, 
OPEN  VIEW  OF  THE  LAKE  IS  TO  BE  OBTAINED, 
ONE  FEELS  THE  LOCATION  OF  THE  HOUSE  IS 
INDEED  WELL-  THOUGHT  OUT.  THE  PLACE 
MAY  WELL  BE  INCLUDED  AMONG  THE  FIRST 
PLACES  OF  LAKE  FOREST.  THE  ATTRACTIVE, 
OLD-FASHIONED  GARDEN,  WITH  ITS  "  AR- 
BOURS"  IS  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  INTERESTING 
PARTS  OF  "LITTLE  ORCHARD." 


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LOUIS   F.  SWIFT 

GREENBAY    ROAD 

"Wesileigh" 

"WESTLEIGH,"  TO  THE  SOUTH  OF  ONWENT- 
SIA,  HAS  MORE  OF  THE  CHARACTER  OF  AN 
OLD  AND  WELL  ESTABLISHED  FARM  ESTATE 
THAN  MANY  OF  THOSE  TO  BE  FOUND  IN  THE 
VICINITY  OF  LAKE  FOREST.  THE  GREAT 
HOUSE  IS  LOCATED  UPON  A  KNOLL,  FROM 
WHICH  A  FINE  VIEW  IS  OBTAINABLE  OUT 
OVER  THE  OPEN  COUNTRY.  THE  PLANTED 
POND  WITH  RUSTIC  EFFECTS  IS  AN  INSPIRA- 
TION TO  NATURE  LOVERS.  THE  EXTENSIVE 
ORCHARDS,  GARDENS,  NUMEROUS  FARM 
HOUSES,  AND  ONE  OF  THE  LARGEST  PRIVATE 
SWIMMING  POOLS  IN  THE  COUNTRY  ARE 
UNUSUAL  FEATURES  WHICH  ADD  WONDER 
TO  THIS  DISTINCTIVELY  AMERICAN  ESTATE. 


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Glimpses  of  Lake  Forest  Gardens 


GEORGE   A.  McKINLOCK 

DEER    PATH 

BUILT  OUT  ON  THE  OPEN  PRAIRIE,  THIS 
AMONG  THE  EARLIEST  OF  THE  LARGER 
HOMES  IS  SET  UPON  A  BROAD,  HEDGE-BOR- 
DERED TERRACE,  -WITH  TREES  ARRANGED 
SO  AS  TO  PROVIDE  SHADE  FROM  THE  HOT 
SUMMER  SUN  AND  TO  ALLOW  THE  COOL 
SOUTHWEST  BREEZES  TO  REACH  THE  HOUSE. 
THE  HOUSE,  SIMPLE  AND  RESTRAINED  IN  ITS 
DESIGN,  IS  OF  PLEASING  ARRANGEMENT, 
SITUATED  SO  AS  TO  TAKE  ADVANTAGE  OF 
THE  BROAD  SWEEP  OF  VIEW,  WHICH  ONE 
GETS  FROM  ALMOST  EVERY  ROOM.  THE 
BROAD  AREAS  OF  THE  GREEN  LAWNS, 
WHICH  ARE  AMONG  THE  LARGEST  IN  LAKE 
FOREST,  AND  THE  BRIGHT  COLORED  FORMAL 
GARDENS,  GIVE  A  SENSE  OF  FREEDOM  WHICH 
TAKES  ONE  FAR  FROM  THE  CRAMPED  EN- 
VIRONMENT OF  A  CITY. 


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HENRY    CALVIN   DURAND 

COLLEGE     ROAD 

"Linden  Lodge" 

THE  PLEASANT  ENGLISH  ATMOSPHERE  THAT 
SEEMS  TO  GIVE  A  FEELING  OF  HARMONY 
WITH  ITS  ENVIRONMENT  BESTOWS  ON 
"LINDEN  LODGE"  A  UNIQUE  INDIVIDUALITY. 
THE  PLAN  OF  THIS  HOUSE  IS  A  LOGICAL 
EXPRESSION  OF  ENGLISH  DOMESTIC  ARCHI- 
TECTURE ADAPTED  TO  THE  AMERICAN  CLI- 
MATE. THE  WHOLE  SCHEME  OF  HOUSE  AND 
GROUNDS  HAS  BEEN  CAREFULLY  WORKED 
OUT,  BOTH  IN  PLAN  AND  ELEVATION, 
AND  MAKES  A  HOMELIKE  COMBINATION. 
WITH  THE  PASSING  OF  TIME  THE  HOUSE 
HAS  SETTLED  ITSELF  INTO  ITS  ENVIRON- 
MENT OF  LUXURIANT  SHRUBBERY  AND  LOFTY 

TREES. 


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ALBERT  B.  DICK 

'    DEER    PATH 

"  Westmoreland" 

SITUATED  WELL  OUT  IN  THE  OPEN  COUNTRY 
TO  THE  WEST  OF  THE  TOWN,  THE  BROAD 
OPEN  SWEEP  OF  LAWN,  THE  CAREFULLY 
KEPT  GRASS  TERRACE,  THE  EXTENSIVE 
GARDENS,  AND,  ABOVE  ALL,  THE  DIGNIFIED 
WATER  TOWER  WHICH  IS  A  LANDMARK. 
FOR  MILES  AROUND,  MAKE  "WESTMORE- 
LAND" ONE  OF  LAKE  FOREST'S  MOST 
ATTRACTIVE  PLACES.  THE  BRICK  AND 
STONE  HOUSE  OF  MODERNIZED  FRENCH 
RENAISSANCE  STYLE,  PARTIALLY  COVERED 
WITH  IVY,  IS  CAREFULLY  SCREENED  FROM 
THE  SURROUNDING  VIEW.  AT  THE  NORTH 
END  OF  THE  TERRACE  IS  LOCATED  A  BEAU- 
TIFUL VINE-COVERED  PERGOLA  AND  A  LITTLE 
GARDEN  PLANTED  WITH  GREAT  CARE  SO 
AS  TO  MAKE  IT  ALWAYS  FULL  OF  FLOWERS 
OF  PLEASING  COLOR  HARMONIES,  WHICH 
ADD  MUCH  TO  THE  CHARM  OF  THIS  PLACE. 
THERE  ARE  LARGE  CUT  FLOWER  GARDENS 
AND  GREENHOUSES  GROUPED  WITH  THE 
SERVICE  BUILDINGS. 


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D.  MARK   CUMMINGS 

LAKE    ROAD 

"loka" 

"lOKA,"  AN  INDIAN  NAME  MEANING  "BEAU- 
TIFUL PLACE,"  IS  INDEED  AN  APPROPRIATE 
NAME  FOR  THIS  UNUSUAL  ESTATE  SITUATED 
ALONG  SIX  HUNDRED  FEET  OF  THE  HIGH 
BLUFF  OF  LAKE  MICHIGAN.  THE  HOUSE  OF 
ENGLISH  TYPE  SURROUNDED  BY  MANY  TREES 
FORMING  INTERESTING  VISTAS,  IS  ONE  OF 
THE  FEW  SO  SITUATED  THAT  IT  OFFERS  AN 
ARTISTIC  SETTING  FROM  ALMOST  EVERY  ANGLE 
OF  VIEW.  FROM  ITS  EAST  PORCH  THE  VIEW 
OF  THE  LAKE  IS  EXCEPTIONALLY  SWEEPING. 
ON  THE  OTHER  SIDE  "lOKA"  IS  FEATURED 
BY  AN  UNUSUALLY  BROAD,  WELL  KEPT 
LAWN  UPON  WHICH  A  TOWERING  OAK  AND 
ASH  CAST  GREAT  SHADOWS  AND  AN  ENCIR- 
CLING DRIVE  REACHES  FROM  LAKE  ROAD  THRU 
THE  ATTRACTIVE  BORDER  PLANTINGS  TO  THE 
HOUSE  AND  OUT  TO  THE  ROAD  AGAIN.  THE 
ATTRACTIVE  ARRANGEMENT  OF  ROSE  AND 
PICKING  GARDENS  AND  ALLURING  ARBORS 
IS  ALSO  IN  KEEPING  WITH  THE  WELL 
ROUNDED  ENGLISH  STYLE  WHICH  DOMINATES 
THIS  BEAUTIFUL  PLACE. 


[46] 


MRS.    BYRON   L.  SMITH 

LAKE     ROAD 

"Briar  Hall" 

WITH  WONDER  AND  AMAZEMENT  WOULD 
JOHN  BARTRAM,  FOR  MANY  YEARS  A  COL- 
LECTOR OF  RARE  AND  CURIOUS  PLANTS, 
HAVE  VISITED  "BRIAR  HALL"  WITH  ITS  WON- 
DERFUL COLLECTION  AND  UNUSUAL  AR- 
RANGEMENT OF  TREES,  SHRUBS,  AND  HERBA- 
CEOUS PLANTS.  UNIQUE  IN  LAKE  FOREST, 
IF  NOT  IN  AMERICA,  IS  THE  COLLECTION  OF 
PLANTS  ARRANGED  ABOUT  OPEN  LAWNS,  ON 
STEEP  CLIFFS,  SANDY  BEACHES,  AND  IN  THE 
HEDGE  BORDERED  GARDENS.  THE  PLACE 
WAS  BEGUN  WITH  THE  BUILDING  OF  THE 
SIMPLE  COLONIAL  HOUSE  ON  THE  VERY 
EDGE  OF  THE  LAKE,  NAMED  "  BRIAR  HALL*' 
BECAUSE  OF  THE  FONDNESS  OF  THE  OWNER 
FOR  SWEET  BRIAR  ROSES.  ON  ACCOUNT  OF 
MR.  SMITH'S  INTEREST  IN  RARE  AND  CURIOUS 
PLANTS,  THOUSANDS  OF  VARIETIES  WERE 
PLANTED  ABOUT  THE  ESTATE  IN  SUCH  A 
WAY  AS  TO  FILL  THE  WHOLE  PLACE  WITH 
ATTRACTION  FOR  THE  BOTANIST.  A  COMPLETE 
SCHEME  OF  NATURE  PLANTING  IN  COM- 
BINATION WITH  FORMAL  GARDENS  AND 
ARCHITECTURAL  EFFECTS  IS  ARRANGED  TO 
PLEASE  THE  EYE  OF  THE  MOST  EXACTING 
DESIGNER. 


[48] 


"Briar  Hall"  Garden  and  the  Nature  Planting  on  the  Bluff 


Forest  Park 


J.  OGDEN  ARMOUR 

TELEGRAPH  ROAD 

"Mellody  Farm" 

NOWHERE  IN  AMERICA  IS  THERE  AS  CHARM- 
ING AN  ENTRANCE  TO  BE  FOUND  AS  THE 
ONE  AT  "MELLODY  FARM."  THE  SIMPLE 
ARRANGEMENT  OF  THE  GATE  LODGES  GIVES 
ONE  A  HINT  OF  THE  MANY  INTERESTING 
FEATURES  THAT  AWAIT  THE  VISITOR 
DOWN  THE  LONG  DRIVE  WHICH  LEADS  ONE 
OVER  AN  INTERESTING  BRIDGE.  AMONG 
THE  POINTS  OF  INTEREST  ARE  ACRES  OF 
SMOOTH  SHAVEN  LAWN  USED  AS  GOLF 
LINKS,  GROVES  OF  HEAVY  TIMBER  THROUGH 
WHICH  THE  DRIVE  WINDS,  PARKS  WITH 
SCAMPERING  ANTELOPE  AND  AN  EXTENSIVE 
CHAIN  OF  LAKES  IN  COURSE  OF  DEVELOP- 
MENT. IN  THE  MIDST  OF  THIS  IMPOSING 
ESTATE  STANDS  A  BEAUTIFUL  HOUSE  OF 
AMAZING  PROPORTIONS  IN  THE  ITALIAN 
STYLE,  WITH  EXTENSIVE  GARDENS,  A  POOL 
AND  FOUNTAINS  ACCENTED  BY  ITALIAN  VASES 
AND  ANTIQUES  FROM  OLD  GARDENS  OF 

EUROPE. 


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GEORGE  D.  MCLAUGHLIN 

LAUREL     AVENUE 

THE  GEORGE  MCLAUGHLIN  HOME  IS  A 
DELIGHTFUL  ADAPTATION  OF  THE  COLONIAL 

STYLE     TO     A     SUMMER     RESIDENCE A     REAL 

OUT  OF  DOOR  COUNTRY  PLACE  WHICH  HAS 
THE  FEATURES  THAT  MAKE  FOR  SUMMER  REST 
AND  PLEASURE.  OPEN  LAWNS  WITH  SHRUB 
AND  PERENNIAL  BORDERS,  IN  KEEPING 
WITH  THE  GARDEN  AS  WELL  AS  BEING 
ADAPTED  FOR  A  SHORT  RESIDENCE  HERE, 
ARE  FEATURED  IN  SUCH  A  WAY  AS  TO  BRING 
IN  A  TRULY  GARDEN  INTEREST.  LIKE 
MANY  OF  THE  PLACES  "ON  THE  RIDGE1' 
THE  VIEWS  OUT  OVER  THE  "SKOKIE"  ARE 
THE  FEATURE  OF  THE  GROUNDS.  THE 
ARRANGEMENT  OF  THE  PLANTINGS  TO 
ENHANCE  THESE  VIEWS  HAS  BEEN  THE  AIM 
OF  THE  OWNER. 


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REUBEN   H.  DONNELLEY 

SHERIDAN    ROAD 

"  Thornehursl" 

BACON,  IN  HIS  ESSAY  ON  GARDENS,  HAS 
DESCRIBED  AN  IDEAL  GARDEN:  THE  OUT- 
SIDE LAWN,  THE  ENCLOSED  GARDEN,  AND 
THE  GROVE  OF  TREES — AND  HERE  AT 
"THORNEHURST"  WE  FIND  THE  IDEAL  GAR- 
DEN ALMOST  REALIZED.  THE  BROAD,  OPEN 

TERRACE  AND  THE  WIDE-SPREADING  LAWN, 
ARE  A  FEATURE  OF  ONE  SIDE  OF  THE  HOUSE 
OF  ITALIAN  STYLE,  WHILE  THE  ITALIAN 
GARDENS,  WOODS  AND  RAVINES,  PROVIDE  A 
GARDEN  INTEREST  FROM  THE  ENTRANCE 
SIDE.  THE  WHOLE  SCHEME  IS  WELL  OR- 
GANIZED, AND  WITH  ALMOST  PERFECT  UP- 
KEEP, THIS  PLACE  EASILY  BECOMES  ONE  OF 
LAKE  FOREST'S  MOST  ATTRACTIVE  ESTATES. 


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THE    DRUMMOND    HOMES 

SPRING    LANE 

QUIET  AND  UNASSUMING  ARE  THESE  TWO 
COLONIAL  HOUSES  WITH  A  LITTLE  ORCHARD 
SITUATED  ON  THE  EDGE  OF  A  DEEP  RAVINE. 
THE  BROAD  SWEEP  OF  GREEN  LAWNS, 
WITH  THE  HOUSES  BACKED  UP  BY  HEAVY 
FOLIAGE  AND  OVERSHADOWED  BY  LARGE 
TREES,  GIVE  ONE  A  FEELING  OF  SECLUSION 
THAT  MAKES  THE  TWO  PLACES  SEEM  SET 
APART  BY  THEMSELVES  AND  SHUT  AWAY 
FROM  THE  TOWN  OF  WHICH  THEY  ARE  A 
PART.  THERE  IS  A  VERY  CLOSE  RELATION 
OF  INTIMACY  BETWEEN  HOUSES  AND  SUR- 
ROUNDINGS, AND  ONE  FEELS  THE  SPIRIT 
OF  THE  OWNERS  IN  THE  GENERAL  SCHEME 
OF  GRACE  AND  IN  THE  QUIET  NEW  ENGLAND 
ATMOSPHERE  WHICH  SURROUNDS  THESE 
CHARMING  PLACES. 


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BERNARD    A.  ECKHART 

DEERPATH 

"Pine-wold" 

FROM  THE  MASSIVE  COLUMNS  OF  THE 
EXTENSIVE  PORTICO  ONE  LOOKS  OUT  OVER 
A  BROAD  SWEEP  OF  GREEN  LAWN  BORDERED 
BY  TREES  AND  FLOWERING  SHRUBS.  AT 
THE  SIDE  AND  BACK  OF  THE  HOUSE  THERE 
IS  A  FORMAL  GARDEN  WITH  BACKGROUND 
OF  PLANTED  FIRS,  ALL  OF  WHICH  GIVE 
A  HOMELIKE  AND  PROTECTIVE  FEELING  TO 
THIS  INTERESTING  HOUSE.  IN  THE  DESIGN 
OF  THE  HOUSE  NO  FIXED  STYLE  HAS  BEEN 
SLAVISHLY  FOLLOWED,  BUT  THE  AIM  HAS 
BEEN  TO  SECURE  THE  ATMOSPHERE  OF  A 
TRUE  AMERICAN  HOME.  THE  BROAD  HORI- 
ZONTAL LINES  SO  PRONOUNCED  IN  THE 
DESIGN  REFLECT  THE  CORRESPONDING  CHAR- 
ACTER OF  THE  SURROUNDING  PRAIRIES  AND 
WATERS. 


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WILLIAM    MATHER   LEWIS 

MAYFLOWER    ROAD 

"Meadeside" 

IN  CONTRAST  TO  THE  MANY  PLACES 
PLANTED  WITH  LARGE  FLAT  AREAS  IS 
"MEADESIDE,"  ARRANGED  IN  SUCH  A  WAY  AS 
TO  FEATURE  THE  DEEP  RAVINE  WHICH  RUNS 
ALONG  THE  NORTH  AND  WEST  BOUNDARIES. 
TO  FIND  IN  THIS  COUNTRY  A  PLACE  WITH 
THE  WHOLE  PLAN  ADAPTED  TO  THE  KEEP- 
ING OF  NATURAL  CONDITIONS,  IS  INDEED 
DIFFICULT.  THE  INGENIOUS  PERSON  WHO 
PLANNED  THE  ARRANGEMENT  OF  THIS 
PLACE,  HAS  CERTAINLY  ILLUSTRATED  IN  A 
VERY  CLEVER  MANNER  THE  VALUE  OF 
NATIVE  SCENERY.  WHILE  FROM  THE  ROAD 
THE  GENERAL  SCHEME  OF  THE  PLACE 
SEEMS  TO  INDICATE  OPEN  LAWNS,  BORDERED 
WITH  FLOWERS,  THERE  IS  A  SURPRISE 
AWAITING  THE  VISITOR.  THE  HOUSE  IS  OF 
THE  ENGLISH  TYPE  WITH  BROWN  SHINGLE 
EXTERIOR.  THE  TWO  LARGE  PORCHES 
ON  THE  SOUTH  OPENING  ON  THE  ROSE  GAR- 
DEN AND  USED  AS  A  CONSERVATORY,  AND  THE 
ONE  ON  THE  NORTH  USED  AS  A  DINING 
PORCH  ARE  THE  FEATURES  OF  THE  HOUSE. 


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HAROLD  F.  McCORMICK 

SHERIDAN  ROAD 

THE  COMBINATION  OF  FORMAL  AND  ARCHI- 
TECTURAL FEATURES  AND  THE  NATURAL 
WOODLANDS,  ALL  GO  TO  MAKE  UP  ONE  OF 
THE  MOST  SATISFACTORY  OF  AMERICAN 
COUNTRY  ESTATES.  A  FEELING  OF  COM- 
PLETENESS SEEMS  TO  FEATURE  EACH 
DIVISION  OF  THE  PLACE.  THE  HOME  IS 
IN  THE  STYLE  OF  AN  ITALIAN  VILLA,  AMONG 
THE  FINEST.  FROM  THE  AMPLE  VEGETABLE 
AND  CUT  FLOWER  GARDENS  TO  THE  ELA- 
BORATE TERRACE  GARDEN,  THERE  SEEMS 
TO  BE  ALWAYS  A  FEELING  OF  COMPLETE- 
NESS AND  HARMONY  OF  DESIGN  CARRIED 
TO  THE  SMALLEST  DETAIL.  THE  DEVELOP- 
MENT OF  THE  FORMAL  STYLE,  HERE,  HAS 
FEW  EQUALS.  THE  GARDEN  LEVELS  PRO- 
VIDE AN  INTEREST  THAT  MAKES  A  FEATURE 
OF  THIS  EXTENSIVE  ESTATE.  THE  LARGE 
LILY  POOL  WITH  THE  BOWLING  GREEN  AND 
POLO  FIELD  BEYOND  ALL  LEADING  TO  THE 
GRASS  WALK  TERMINATED  BY  THE  PAVILION, 
MAKE  INDEED  A  ROUND  OF  GARDEN  DE- 
LIGHTS. AN  UNUSUALLY  INTERESTING 
FEATURE  OF  THE  ESTATE  IS  THE  SWIM- 
MING POOL  AT  THE  LAKE  LEVEL  WHICH  IS 
REACHED  FROM  THE  HOUSE  BY  A  SEVENTY 
FOOT  ELEVATOR  TO  A  TUNNEL  TERMINATING 
AT  THE  POOL. 


166] 


HARRY    B.  CLOW 

SHERIDAN    ROAD 

" Lansdowne" 

LARGE,  OPEN  LAWNS,  FULL  OF  BRIGHT 
SUNSHINE,  AND  QUIET,  SECLUDED  GARDENS, 
GAY  WITH  FLOWERS,  CREATE  INDEED  AN 
ATMOSPHERE  LIKE  THAT  OF  ENGLAND.  THE 
HOUSE,  WHICH  IS  IN  THE  GEORGIAN  STYLE 
OF  ARCHITECTURE  AND  OF  AMPLE  PRO- 
PORTIONS, IS  LOCATED  ON  THE  GROUNDS 
IN  SUCH  A  WAY  AS  TO  PROVIDE  AN  UNU- 
SUALLY LARGE  OPEN  LAWN  ON  ONE  SIDE, 
AND  A  CLOSE  VIEW  OF  THE  LAKE  ON  THE 
OTHER,  CHARACTERISTICS  WHICH  CONVEY 
A  FINE  IMPRESSION  OF  SPACIOUSNESS. 
"LANSDOWNE"  WAS  BUILT  BY  HARRY  B. 
CLOW  IN  IQI  I,  ON  THE  SITE  OF  OLD  FERRY 
FIELD,  FOR  MANY  YEARS  USED  AS  A  POLO 
GROUND.  THE  HIGH  BLUFFS,  THE  INTER- 
ESTING WALKS  THROUGH  THE  RAVINES, 
ACROSS  THE  OPEN  LAWNS,  AND  ABOUT  THE 
FLOWER  GARDENS,  GIVE  THIS  PLACE  MUCH 
INDIVIDUALITY. 


168] 


THOMAS   E.  DONNELLEY 

GREENBAY    ROAD 

"Clinola" 

A  UNIQUE  DIVISION  AND  ARRANGEMENT  OF 
PERENNIAL  SHRUBS  AND  WINDING  AREAS, 
EACH  SHOWING  A  DISTINCT  WAY  OF  MAKING 
A  GARDEN  PICTURE,  COMBINED  WITH  THE 
YEAR  AROUND  HOME  OF  GEORGIAN  TYPE, 
GIVES  "CLINOLA"  ONE  OF  THE  MOST 
CHARMING  INDIVIDUALITIES  TO  BE  FOUND 
IN  LAKE  FOREST.  FRENCH  WINDOWS  OF  THE 
DINING-ROOM  OPEN  ON  TO  THE  PLAZA  WHICH 
OVERLOOKS  THE  WIDE  GRASS  TERRACE  AND 
SHRUBS  FAR  OUT  TO  DISTANT  HILLS  BEYOND 
"THE  SKOKIE."  AS  ONE  WALKS  ABOUT  THE 
ESTATE  THERE  IS  A  CHARM  OF  MYSTERY 
ENTICING  ONE  TO  GO  FROM  ONE  GARDEN 
FEATURE  TO  THE  NEXT,  GIVING  A  TRUE 
FEELING  OF  INTEREST  AND  SECLUSION. 


GENERAL   MARTIN   D.  HARDIN 
GREENBAY   ROAD 

THIS  DUTCH  COLONIAL  COTTAGE,  WITH  ITS 
WALLS  OF  WIDE  WHITE  SHINGLES  AND  ITS 
QUAINT  BLACK-TIPPED  CHIMNEYS,  IS  ONE 
OF  THE  MOST  INTERESTING  OF  LAKE 
FOREST'S  HOMES.  THE  WHITE  LATTICE 
ENCLOSED  TEA  GARDEN,  DISTINGUISHED  BY 
ITS  WONDERFULLY  LUXURIANT  GROWTH  OF 
ROSES,  AND  THE  GARDEN  WITH  A  VARIETY  OF 
OTHER  BRIGHT  SUMMER  FLOWERS,  COM- 
BINED WITH  THE  WELL-KEPT  SHRUB  BOR- 
DERED LAWN,  ALL  GO  TO  GIVE  A  UNIQUE 
INTEREST  THAT  WILL  MERIT  CAREFUL  STUDY 
BY  THE  GARDEN  LOVER. 


[72] 


EDWARD    S.  MOORE 

GREENBAY    ROAD 

''West  Highlands" 

"WEST  HIGHLANDS"  WAS  BUILT  IN  1912  TO 
REPLACE  THE  WIDELY  KNOWN  COUNTRY 
PLACE  OF  DR.  JOHN  W.  STREETER.  WITH 
ITS  ACRES  OF  FRUIT  TREES,  113  FEET 
ABOVE  THE  LEVEL  OF  THE  LAKE,  THE  HIGHEST 
POINT  OF  VIEW  IN  LAKE  FOREST.  ENTERING 
FROM  GREENBAY  ROAD,  A  LONG  SHADED 
DRIVE  LEADS,  OVER  ROLLING  TURF  USED  AS 
A  GOLF  COURSE,  TO  THE  SUMMIT.  THERE 
ONE  COMES  TO  THE  LARGE,  WHITE  ITALIAN 
HOME,  WHICH  SEEMS  TO  CARRY  OUT  THE 
LINES  OF  THE  HILL.  TO  ONE  WHO  UNDER- 
STANDS PLANT  MATERIAL  AND  THE  QUEER 
WAYS  THAT  SOME  PLANTS  HAVE  OF  BEHAV- 
ING, IT  WILL  BE  SURPRISING  TO  LEARN  THAT 
THE  ENTIRE  TERRACE  IS  FORMALLY  PLANTED 
WITH  DELICATE  RETINOSPERA  WHICH,  WITH 
THE  PLAYING  FOUNTAINS,  AND  THE  STRONG 
CONTRAST  OF  LIGHT  AND  SHADE  MADE  BY 
THE  TREES,  GIVES  THE  ATMOSPHERE  OF 
ITALY.  THE  VIEW  DOWN  OVER  THE  ROSE 
GARDENS  TO  THE  LAKE,  LOCATED  SOME 
DISTANCE  FROM  THE  HOUSE,  GIVES  ONE  AN 
IDEA  OF  THE  GREAT  EXTENT  OF  THE  PLACE. 
THERE  ARE  MANY  PLEASING  WALKS  UNDER- 
NEATH THE  TREES  THRU  THE  TERRACE  ROSE 
GARDENS  AND  THE  PLEACHED  ALLEY  TO  THE 
CUT  FLOWER  GARDENS,  GREENHOUSES,  AND 
A  STRETCH  OF  WOODLAND  LOCATED  IN  SUCH 
A  WAY  AS  TO  PROVIDE  A  COOL  AND  QUIET 
RETREAT  FOR  THE  VISITOR. 


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DONALD  R.  MCLENNAN 

LAKE     ROAD 

THE  HOUSE  IS  SITUATED  CLOSE  TO  THE  EDGE 
OF  THE  BLUFF,  WITH  A  WELL-THOUGHT  OUT 
GARDEN,  ARRANGED  LIKE  AN  ITALIAN 
PARTERRE  COMBINED  WITH  ENGLISH 

FEATURES.  SEVERAL  HANDSOME  TREES 
BREAK  THE  STRONG  WINDS  AND  PROVIDE 
FOR  A  MOSAIC  OF  SUN  AND  SHADE  ON  THE 
GARDEN.  THE  HOUSE,  WHICH  IS  QUITE 
ITALIAN,  HARMONIZES  SPLENDIDLY  WITH  THE 
GARDEN  AND  LANDSCAPE.  THE  WELL 
ARRANGED  ENTRANCE  DRIVE,  WHICH  GIVES 
A  FEELING  OF  EXTENT  TO  THE  PLACE,  IS 
A  FEATURE  OF  INTEREST  TO  THE  VISITOR 
ON  ENTERING  THE  ESTATE.  THE  BROAD, 
OPEN  VIEW  OF  THE  LAKE  PROVIDES  AN 
ATMOSPHERE  OF  EXTEXSIVENESS  TO  THE 
WHOLE  SCHEME. 


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CLAYTON  MARK   ESTATE 

LAKE    ROAD 


EDWARD    L.  RYERSON 

RINGWOOD     ROAD 

"  H avenwood " 

A  LONG  DRIVE  THROUGH  A  BEAUTIFUL 
WOODED  PARK  BRINGS  ONE  TO  THE  LARGE 
OPEN  FORECOURT  ON  THE  EAST  FRONT  OF 
THE  HOUSE.  FROM  THIS  POINT  A  BEAUTIFUL 
VIEW  IS  OBTAINED  ACROSS  A  GREEN  GRASSY 
GLADE,  TERMINATED  BY  AN  EXTENSIVE 
GARDEN  FULL  OF  BRIGHT  FLOWERS  AND  A 
GREAT  FOUNTAIN  ADORNED  WITH  FOUR  OLD 
STATUES  BROUGHT  FROM  VERONA,  ITALY, 
THAT  PLAYS  HIGH  AGAINST  A  BACKGROUND 
OF  "NATURE  PLANTED"  CEDAR  TREES,  ALL 
OF  WHICH  GIVES  A  DELIGHTFUL  ITALIAN 
ATMOSPHERE  SUCH  AS  IS  FOUND  IN  NO  OTHER 
PLACE  IN  AMERICA.  THE  HOUSE  IS  SUR- 
ROUNDED BY  STRETCHES  OF  HEAVILY 
WOODED  GROWTH,  BY  GRASSY  LAWNS,  AND 
BY  LONG  ROWS  OF  TREES.  SO  CLEVERLY 
HAS  THE  PLACE  BEEN  ARRANGED  THAT  ITS 
APPARENT  EXTENT  HAS  BEEN  INCREASED 
MANY  TIMES.  THE  HOUSE  IS  OF  THE  EARLY 
RENAISSANCE  PERIOD,  AND  WHILE  NOT  A 
SLAVISH  COPY,  IS  A  FINE  EXAMPLE  OF  THE 
ARCHITECTURE  OF  THAT  PERIOD. 


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JOSEPH    M.  CUDAHY 

DEERPATH 

OF  ALMOST  PERFECT  PROPORTIONS,  WITH 
EVERY  DETAIL  SHOWING  MOST  CAREFUL 
STUDY,  THIS  HOUSE  OF  THE  LOUIS  XVI  PERIOD 
IS  INDEED  A  BEAUTIFUL  PIECE  OF  ARCHI- 
TECTURE. FROM  THE  LARGE  TERRACE  IN 
FRONT  OF  THE  HOUSE  THERE  IS  A  FINE 
VIEW  TO  BE  OBTAINED  OUT  OVER  THE  ROLL- 
ING STRETCH  OF  GREENSWARD.  THE  DE- 
VELOPMENT OF  THIS  NEW  PLACE  IS  TRULY 
REMARKABLE,  ALTHOUGH  IT  WAS  ONLY 
BUILT  IN  1915.  SUCH  HAS  BEEN  THE  SKILL 
IN  THE  PLANTING  THAT  IT  HAS  ALREADY  LOST 
THE  SUGGESTION  OF  UNFINISH.  THE  WIN- 
TER AND  SUMMER  TENNIS  COURT,  THE 
EXTENSIVE  GARDENS,  AND  THE  WONDERFUL 
VIEW  OUT  OVER  THE  "SKOKIE"  GIVE  AN 
OUT-OF-DOOR  CHARM  TO  THE  HOUSE  SETTING. 


[84] 


CHARLES   EDWARD    BROWN 

GREENBAY    ROAD 

"Desbro  House" 

THIS  ATTRACTIVE  HOME,  LOCATED  ON 
GREENBAY  ROAD,  ACROSS  FROM  THE  ON- 
WENTSIA  CLUB,  IS  ONE  OF  LAKE  FOREST'S 
"YEAR  ROUND  PLACES."  THE  EXTENSIVE 
LAWNS  WITH  THEIR  MOSAIC  OF  SUN  AND 
SHADOW  GIVE  A  CHARM  THAT  IS  MOST  DIS- 
TINCTIVE. THE  COMBINATION  OF  LATTICE 
AND  COLONIAL  WINDOWS  WITH  DELICATE 
WINDOW  PLANTINGS  AND  VINES  PRESENT 
ONE  OF  THE  PRETTIEST  DETAIL  EFFECTS 
IMAGINABLE.  THE  DEEP  OPEN  TERRACE, 
WITH  CHILDREN'S  PLAYHOUSE,  SHADED  BY 
OAKS,  AND  THE  EVERGREEN  PLANTING,  SE- 
CURE FOR  THIS  PLACE  AN  AIR  OF  COMFORT 
BOTH  FOR  WINTER  AND  SUMMER. 


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WILLIAM    V.  KELLEY 

GREENBAY  ROAD 

ALTHOUGH  BARELY  COMPLETED,  THIS 
ESTATE  HAS  ALREADY  COME  TO  BE  REGARDED 
AS  ONE  OF  THE  MOST  CHARMING  IN  LAKE 
FOREST.  THE  LONG  ENTRANCE  DRIVE 
PASSING  A  LAKE  THRU  NATURAL  WOODS  OF 
OAK  BRINGS  ONE  TO  A  HOUSE  COMBINING 
THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL  FEATURES  OF  THE 
NEW  LAKE  FOREST  ARCHITECTURE.  ITS 
GREEN  BLINDS,  ARCHED  PORCHES,  AND 
TOWERS  GIVE  AN  ARTISTIC  AND  EXTENSIVE 
EFFECT  AT  ONCE.  THE  EFFECT  OF  A 
SPRING  PLANTED  SO  AS  TO  NATURALLY 
FURNISH  WATER  FOR  A  GREAT  SWIMMING 
POOL  BELOW  RIVALS  NATURE.  AN  UNU- 
SUALLY ARTISTIC  GREENHOUSE,  THE  GREAT 
TOWERS  OF  THE  SERVANTS'  QUARTERS,  THE 
WIDE  STRETCH  OF  COUNTRY  TO  THE  WEST, 
ARE  AMONG  THE  POINTS  OF  INTEREST  OF 
THIS  VERY  COMPLETELY  PLANNED  ESTATE. 


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The  Onwentsia  Club 

ORGANIZED  IN  NOVEMBER,  1895,  AND 
THEREFORE  JUST  COME  OF  AGE,  THE  ON- 
WENTSIA CLUB  IS  PASSING  FROM  A  VIGOROUS 
YOUTH  INTO  A  MANHOOD  AT  ONCE  HAPPY, 
DIGNIFIED,  AND  USEFUL.  IT  HAS  SERVED  ITS 
MEMBERS,  VISITORS  AND  THE  COMMUNITY 
LONG  AND  ABLY. 

ONE  OF  ITS  EARLIEST  INSPIRATIONS  CAME 
FROM  THE  ROYAL  GAME  OF  GOLF,  AND  IT  HAS 
SEEN  THE  ANNUAL  FUNCTION  OF  ITS  POW- 
WOW BECOME  A  CLASSIC  AMONG  THE  TOUR- 
NAMENTS OF  THE  ANCIENT  PASTIME.  THE 
LINKS  HAVE  BEEN  THE  SCENE  OF  NATIONAL 
AND  LOCAL  CHAMPIONSHIP  TOURNAMENTS. 
FOR  MANY  YEARS  THE  WESTERN  LAWN 
TENNIS  CHAMPIONSHIPS  HAVE  BEEN  HELD 
ON  ITS  COURTS  AND  HERE  HAVE  BEEN 
FOUGHT  OUT  ELIMINATION  CONTESTS  FOR 
THE  INTERNATIONAL  TROPHY,  THE  DAVIS 
CUP.  THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF  YOUTHFUL 
TALENT  IS  ENCOURAGED,  UNDER  THE  SUPER- 
VISION OF  GOOD  COACHES.  THE  RECORD  OF 
THE  POLO  TEAM  GIVES  IT  THE  FOREMOST 
RANK  IN  THE  WEST. 

THE  HUNT  WAS  GIVEN  UP  A  YEAR  OR  TWO 
AGO,  AND  A  COMMITTEE  WHICH,  EQUALLY 
DEVOTED  TO  HORSEMANS-HIP,  NOW  MAINTAINS 
FIFTEEN  MILES  OF  BEAUTIFUL  EQUESTRIAN 
PATHS  IN  AND  ABOUT  LAKE  FOREST.  TRAP- 
SHOOTING  FLOURISHES,  ALSO  THE  INDOOR 
SPORTS  OF  SQUASH  AND  RACQUETS. 
THE  LAKE  FOREST  HORSE-SHOW  AND  COUNTY 
FAIR,  A  NOTABLE  INSTITUTION  FOR  THE 
BENEFIT  OF  CHARITY,  IS  HELD  ANNUALLY. 
MANY  COMMUNITIES  HAVE  THEIR  COUNTRY 
CLUBS,  BUT  NONE  FIT  MORE  FULLY  AND 
DELIGHTFULLY  INTO  THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE 
COMMUNITY  IT  GRACES,  THAN  DOES 
ONWENTSIA  CLUB  INTO  THE  DAILY  LIFE  OF 
THE  CITY  OF  LAKE  FOREST. 

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The  Convent  of  the  Sacred  Heart 

THE  CONVENT  OF  THE  SACRED  HEART  IS 
THE  YOUNGEST  OF  LAKE  FOREST'S  EDUCA- 
TIONAL INSTITUTIONS,  HAVING  BEEN  BUILT 
IN  1903.  IT  OCCUPIES  A  FINELY  WOODED 
PIECE  OF  LAND  TOWARD  THE  SOUTH  END 
OF  THE  CITY  AND  IS  SO  PLACED  AS  TO  HAVE 
DESIRABLE  SECLUSION  FROM  THE  HIGH- 
WAYS. THE  BUILDING,  WHICH  IS  OF  RED 
BRICK,  IS  A  MODEL  OF  MODERN  SCHOOL 
CONSTRUCTION,  AND  THE  VISITOR  IS  IM- 
PRESSED WITH  THE  CONVENIENCE,  TASTE, 
AND  IMMACULATE  CONDITION  OF  THE  ENTIRE 
EDIFICE. 

THE  CONVENT  OF  THE  SACRED  HEART  IS  ONE 
OF  MANY  SIMILAR  INSTITUTIONS  THROUGH- 
OUT THE  WORLD  TAUGHT  BY  THE  LADIES 
OF  THE  SACRED  HEART.  THE  PROGRAMME 
OF  STUDIES  COVERS  AS  COMPLETE  AN 
INTRODUCTION  AS  GIRLS  CAN  MASTER  IN 
THEIR  SCHOOL  YEARS,  TO  THE  VARIOUS 
DEPARTMENTS  OF  STUDY  WHICH  MAY  IN- 
FLUENCE THEIR  AFTER  LIFE.  TIME  AND 
SPACE  ARE  ALSO  GIVEN  FOR  THE  GIFTS,  ARTS 
AND  SCIENCES  THAT  GO  TO  THE  MAKING 
OF  HOME  AND  TO  THE  HAPPINESS  OF  LIFE, 
TO  THE  GRACES  OF  LIVING 

"IN     SELF-CONTROL 
AND     COMELINESS     AND     QUIET     MIRTH." 


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Ferry  Hall 


NO  MORE  CHARMING  SITUATION  FOR  A 
GIRLS'  SCHOOL  COULD  HAVE  BEEN  SELECTED 
THAN  THE  WOODED  TRACT  OVERLOOKING 
LAKE  MICHIGAN  WHERE  STAND  THE  BUILD- 
INGS OF  FERRY  HALL.  THE  CAMPUS  FINDS 
ITS  NATURAL  BOUNDARIES  IN  THE  DEEP 
AND  BEAUTIFUL  RAVINES  WHICH  SKIRT  IT. 
FERRY  HALL,  THE  MAIN  DORMITORY  BUILD- 
ING, IS  FLANKED  ON  THE  RIGHT  BY  SMITH 
HALL,  OCCUPIED  BY  THE  RECITATION  ROOMS 
AND  OFFICES  OF  ADMINISTRATION.  THE 
MOST  INTERESTING  BUILDING,  JUDGED 
ARCHITECTURALLY,  AND  FROM  A  STAND- 
POINT OF  TRADITION  AS  WELL,  IS  THE 
GOTHIC  CHAPEL  STANDING  AT  THE  LEFT  OF 
THE  MAIN  BUILDING.  THE  CHAPEL  IS 
GLORIFIED  BY  THE  TIFFANY  WINDOW  WHICH 
STANDS  AS  A  MEMORIAL  TO  MISS  SABRA  L. 
SARGENT,  LATE  PRINCIPAL. 
FERRY  HALL  HAS  FILLED  A  LARGE  PLACE 
.IN  THE  LIFE  OF  LAKE  FOREST.  SUCCEED- 
ING GENERATIONS  OF  THE  DAUGHTERS  OF 
THE  COMMUNITY,  TOGETHER  WITH  YOUNG 
WOMEN  FROM  ALL  PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY, 
HAVE  TAKEN  THEIR  PREPARATORY  WORK 
THERE  AND  MANY  HAVE  GONE  ON  THROUGH 
THE  JUNIOR  COLLEGE  COURSE.  THE  BEAUTY 
AND  EXTENT  OF  THE  CAMPUS  LURE  THE 
GIRLS  TO  ACTIVE  OUTDOOR  LIFE.  HORSE- 
BACK RIDING  IS  A  POPULAR  RECREATION 
AND  GROUPS  OF  GIRLS  MAY  BE  SEEN  ANY 
PLEASANT  DAY  RIDING  WITH  AN  INSTRUCTOR 
ALONG  THE  PATHS  OF  LAKE  FOREST. 
FERRY  HALL  WAS  FOUNDED  AND  ENDOWED  IN 
1869  BY  REV.  WILLIAM  M.  FERRY.  ITS 
HISTORY  HAS  BEEN  ONE  OF  STEADY  GROWTH 
AND  UNIFORM  USEFULNESS.  TODAY  UNDER 
THE  SKILFUL  GUIDANCE  OF  MISS  MARION 
COATES,  THE  PRINCIPAL,  THE  THOROUGH- 
NESS OF  ITS  WORK  AND  THE  REFINEMENT  OF 
ITS  ATMOSPHERE  ARE  CAUSES  OF  CONGRAT- 
ULATION BY  THE  ENTIRE  COMMUNITY. 

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Lake  Forest  Academy 

NO  WORK  DEALING  WITH  THE  DEVELOP- 
MENT OF  LAKE  FOREST  WOULD  BE  COM- 
PLETE WITHOUT  DUE  ATTENTION  BEING 
GIVEN  TO  LAKE  FOREST  ACADEMY,  AS  TOWN 
AND  SCHOOL  CAME  INTO  EXISTENCE  PRAC- 
TICALLY AT  THE  SAME  TIME.  THE 
ACADEMY  WAS  OPENED  IN  1858  AND  FOR 
MANY  YEARS  WAS  HOUSED  ON  THE  COLLEGE 
CAMPUS.  IN  1893  THE  PRESENT  FINE 
CAMPUS  WAS  LAID  OUT  UPON  ONE  OF  THE 
HIGHEST  POINTS  IN  LAKE  FOREST,  AND  THE 
CONSTRUCTION  OF  A  GROUP  OF  BUILDINGS 
MODELED  AFTER  THE  ENGLISH  COTTAGE 
SYSTEM  WAS  BEGUN.  THE  BUILDINGS  ARE 
SIMPLE  IN  DESIGN,  TENDING  IN  DETAIL 
TOWARD  A  RENAISSANCE  TREATMENT.  THE 
RESIDENTIAL  BUILDINGS  ARE  DONE  IN  A 
QUIET  GRAY  BRICK  WITH  PLEASING  GABLED 
ROOFS.  THE  ACADEMIC  BUILDING  KNOWN  AS 
REID  HALL,  IS  IN  A  YELLOWISH  PRESSED 
BRICK,  CONTRASTED  WITH  A  RICHER  BROWN 
AND  TRIMMED  WITH  STONE.  THE  INTERIOR 
OF  THE  RESIDENTIAL  BUILDINGS  DURAND  AND 
REMSEN  COTTAGES  ARE  ESPECIALLY  HOME- 
LIKE IN  TREATMENT  AND  DECORATION, 
WHILE  THE  ACADEMIC  BUILDING  THOUGH 
DIGNIFIED  IS  RELIEVED  OF  THE  HARD 
QUALITIES  OF  THE  TYPICAL  SCHOOL  HOUSE. 
IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  MAIN  GROUP  THERE 
IS  A  SPACIOUS  GYMNASIUM  AND  SWIMMING 
POOL,  HAVING  PLASTER  AND  CROSS  TIM- 
BERED EXTERIOR. 

MANY  A  MAN  WHOSE  NAME  STANDS  HIGH  IN 
THE  BUSINESS  AND  PROFESSIONAL  LIFE  OF 
THE  NATION  HAS  RECEIVED  HIS  FIRST 
INSPIRATION  IN  THIS  HISTORIC  SCHOOL 
WHOSE  RECENT  GRADUATES  ARE  NOW 
MAKING  ENVIABLE  RECORDS  IN  THE  UNI- 
VERSITIES OF  THE  EAST.  JOHN  WAYNE 
RICHARDS,  THE  EFFICIENT  HEADMASTER, 
AND  HIS  CORPS  OF  ASSISTANTS  LIVE  WITH 
THE  BOYS  AND  PARTICIPATE  IN  ALL  THE 
ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  STUDENT  LIFE. 

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Lake  Forest  College 


LAKE  FOKEST  IS  A  TOWN  OF  HOMES,  A 
PLACE  WHERE  PEOPLE  LIVE.  IN  THE  SAME 
WAY  LAKE  FOREST  COLLEGE  IS  A  COLLEGE 
HOME,  A  PLACE  WHERE  STUDENTS  LIVE  AS 
WELL  AS  STUDY.  IN  THIS  RESPECT  IT 
DIFFERS  FROM  OTHER  WESTERN  COLLEGES, 
OR  HAS  PRECEDED  THEM  IN  THE  LINE  OF 
THEIR  PRESENT  SLOW  DEVELOPMENT. 
BEING  A  VERY  YOUNG  INSTITUTION,  LAKE 
FOREST  COLLEGE  HAS  NOT  YET  TAKEN  ON 
THE  VENERABLE  TONE  OF  THE  OLDER  NEW 
ENGLAND  COLLEGES,  BUT  IT  ALREADY  RE- 
SEMBLES THEM  IN  A  CERTAIN  COMPLETE- 
NESS OF  EQUIPMENT  AND  DISTINCTION  OF 
CHARACTER,  AS  WELL  AS  IN  MAINTAINING 
HIGH  STANDARDS  OF  WORK. 

THE  ARCHITECTURAL  EFFECT  OF  THE  COL- 
LEGE IS  OF  THE  DOMESTIC  OR  VILLAGE 
RATHER  THAN  OF  THE  INSTITUTIONAL  TYPE, 
THE  LATTER  NOTE  APPEARING  ONLY  IN 
TWO  OLDER  BUILDINGS  WHICH  IN  COURSE 
OF  TIME  ARE  LIKELY  TO  DISAPPEAR.  THE 
PERMANENT  BUILDINGS  ARE  NOT  BULKY 
AND  TOWERING,  NOR  ARE  THEY  HUDDLED 
TOGETHER,  AS  IS  SO  OFTEN  THE  CASE. 
THEY  LIE  IN  BROAD  LINES  ALONG  THE 
GENEROUS  WOODED  SPACES  OF  THE  CAMPUS, 
AND  THE  IVY-COVERED  WALLS  BLEND  INTO 
THE  FOREST  TONES  OF  THE  GENERAL 
SETTING.  THE  CHIEF  ARCHITECTURAL 

ACCENTS  OF  THESE  WIDE-RANGING  BUILD- 
INGS ARE  THE  GRACEFUL  BEDFORD  STONE 
TOWER  OF  THE  REID  MEMORIAL  CHAPEL  AND 
THE  IVY-CLAD  TWIN  BRICK  TOWERS  OF 
BLACKSTONE  AND  HARLAN  DORMITORIES. 
THE  UNUSUAL  SIMPLICITY  AND  GRACE  OF 
THE  GENERAL  LINES  OF  THE  CALVIN  DURAND 
COMMONS  HAVE  ATTRACTED  WIDESPREAD 
ATTENTION.  THESE  MAY  BE  SAID  TO  EXPRESS 
IN  BRICK  AND  STONE  THE  CHARACTERISTIC 
QUALITY  OF  THE  INSTITUTION  AS  A  CHRISTIAN 
HOME  COLLEGE. 


The  Reid  Memorial  Chapel  and  Library 
of  Lake  Forest  College 

THESE  BUILDINGS  WERE  BEGUN  IN  1899 
AND  COMPLETED  WITHIN  A  YEAR.  THEY 
WERE  THE  GIFT  TO  THE  COLLEGE  OF  MRS. 
SIMON  REID,  IN  MEMORY  OF  HER  DAUGHTER, 
MRS.  LILY  REID  HOLT,  AND  OF  HER  SON, 
ARTHUR  SOMERVILLE  REID.  THE  STYLE  OF 
THESE  STONE  BUILDINGS  IS  A  VERY  FREE 
ADAPTATION  OF  THAT  USED  IN  THE  ENGLISH 
UNIVERSITIES.  THE  BUILDINGS  ARE  CON- 
NECTED BY  A  CLOISTER  AND  TOGETHER 
FORM  ONE  ARCHITECTURAL  COMPOSITION. 
THE  DOMINATING  FEATURE  OF  THE  COMPO- 
SITION IS  THE  CHAPEL  TOWER,  WHICH  IS 
VERY  GRACEFUL  IN  OUTLINE,  AND  AN  OBJECT 
OF  BEAUTY  AND  STRENGTH  FROM  EVERY 
POINT  OF  VIEW.  THE  INTERIOR  OF  THE 
CHAPEL  IS  ONE  LARGE  HALL  WITH  A  VAULTED 
ROOF.  THE  CHAPEL  HAS  BEEN  TREATED 
MUCH  AS  IF  IT  WERE  IN  AN  EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH,  AND  THE  WHOLE  INTERIOR  CAN 
BEST  BE  DESCRIBED  AS  "  CHURCHLY." 
THE  LIBRARY  HAS  BEEN  KEPT  SUBSERVIENT 
TO  THE  CHAPEL,  BUT  WITH  DISTINCTIVE 
FEATURES  OF  ITS  OWN  AND  THE  DESIGN 
ADEQUATELY  EXPRESSES  THE  ARRANGE- 
MENT OF  THE  PLAN.  PASSING  THROUGH 
THE  ARCHED  LOGGIA  AT  THE  ENTRANCE, 
ONE  ENTERS  A  LARGE  SUNNY  HALL  DOM- 
INATED BY  A  GENEROUS  FIREPLACE.  TO 
THE  LEFT  OF  THE  HALL  IS  THE  STOCK 
ROOM  RUNNING  THROUGH  TWO  STORIES, 
AND  TO  THE  RIGHT  OF  THE  ENTRANCE  IS 
THE  READING  ROOM,  A  LOFTY,  WELL  LIGHTED 
ROOM,  HANDSOMELY  FURNISHED  WITH 
TABLES  AND  CHAIRS,  INVITING  ONE  TO 
QUIET  STUDY.  SIMPLICITY  AND  STRAIGHT- 
FORWARDNESS ARE  THE  PREDOMINANT  CHAR- 
ACTERISTICS OF  THIS  GROUP  OF  BUILDINGS 
WHICH  ARE  RAPIDLY  TAKING  ON  THE 
MELLOWNESS  OF  AGE. 


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FROST   AND    GRANGER,    ARCHITECTS 

Blackstone  Hall 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

By  JOHN  J.  HALSEY,  LL.D. 
of  Lake  Forest    University 

EKE  FOREST  is  KNOWN  TO-DAY  AS 
ONE  OF  THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL  SUB- 
URBAN TOWNS  IN  THE  COUNTRY.  ITS 
ADVANTAGEOUS  SITUATION  ON  AN  UNDU- 
LATING TERRAIN,  WHICH  IS  INTERSECTED  BY 
THE  WINDINGS  OF  FOUR  GREAT  RAVINES, 
AND  WHICH  BREAKS  DOWN  TO  LAKE  MICHI- 
GAN IN  BLUFFS  A  HUNDRED  FEET  HIGH, 
IS  ENHANCED  BY  THE  GREAT  FOREST  OF 
OAKS  AND  HICKORIES  WHICH  HAS  BEEN 
PRESERVED,  AND  AMID  WHICH  THE  HOMES 
ARE  PLACED.  THE  WINDING  STREETS  ARE 
ALL  PAVED,  BUT  TO  A  WIDTH  OF  ONLY 
EIGHTEEN  OR  TWENTY  FEET,  AND  THE  PARK- 
WAY ON  EITHER  SIDE  OF  THESE  CENTRAL 
ROADS  IS  BROKEN  ONLY  BY  A  WALK  OF 
CEMENT,  AND  IS  KEPT  IN  LAWN  CONDITION 
CONTINUOUSLY  WITH  THE  PRIVATE  PROPER- 
TY INTO  WHICH  IT  INSENSIBLY  MERGES.  AS 
FEW  FENCES  INTERVENE,  THE  WHOLE  TOWN 
PRESENTS  A  PARK-LIKE  EFFECT  WITH  MANY 
BEAUTIFUL  VISTAS.  IN  THE  MIDST  OF  THIS 
FOREST  LANDSCAPE  ARE  SET  THE  BEAUTIFUL 
HOMES,  OCCUPYING  FROM  ONE  TO  FIFTY 
ACRES,  AND  ADORNED  UNOBTRUSIVELY  BY 
ALL  THE  SKILL  AND  ART  OF  ARCHITECT  AND 
LANDSCAPE  GARDENER  AND  FORESTER. 
THE  FAVORING  TOPOGRAPHICAL  AND  BIO- 
LOGICAL FEATURES  HAVE  BEEN  SO  FOSTERED 
BY  AN  INTELLIGENT  IMPROVEMENT  THAT 
THEY  HAVE  ENTERED  MOST  DEEPLY  INTO 
THE  MAKING  OF  A  LAKE  FOREST  TRADITION 
AND  A  LAKE  FOREST  "ATMOSPHERE."  THE 
PLANTING  HERE  OF  A  COLLEGIATE  INSTITU- 
TION, WHICH  IS  COEVAL  WITH  THE  PLANTING 
OF  THE  TOWN,  HAS  GIVEN  ALWAYS  A  FLAVOR 
OF  INTELLECTUALITY  AND  THE  CULTURE  OF 
THE  SCHOOL,  WHILST  THE  GATHERING  TO 
THIS  CENTRE,  FROM  THE  EARLIEST  DAYS,  OF 
"BIG  BUSINESS"  MEN  FROM  CHICAGO,  WHO 
BUILT  THE  TOWN  AND  THE  COLLEGE  OUT 
OF  ONE  PURPOSE,  HAS  GIVEN  A  BREADTH  OF 

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The  Quintan  House 

VIEW  AND  AN  ACUTENESS  OF  SOCIAL  VIS- 
ION, WHICH  TOGETHER  HAVE  KEPT  THE 
MUNICIPALITY  ON  A  HIGH  PLANE,  ABOVE 
THE  DEVICES  OF  THE  PETTY  LOCAL  POLI- 
TICIAN AND  SPOILSMAN,  AND  AT  THE  FORE- 
FRONT OF  ALL  URBAN  GROWTH  AND  DE- 
VELOPMENT. FOR  SIXTY  YEARS  THE  MEN 
WHO  HAVE  MADE  CHICAGO  HAVE  BEEN 
MAKING  LAKE  FOREST,  AND  THEY  HAVE 
MADE  IT  WITH  THE  SAME  LARGE  SPIRIT  AND 
THE  SAME  INTELLIGENT  PURPOSE. 
IN  1855,  WITH  A  VIEW  TO  ESTABLISHING  A 
PRESBYTERIAN  COLLEGE  NEAR  CHICAGO, 
THE  REV.  ROBERT  W.  PATTERSON,  D.D., 
PASTOR  OF  THE  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH  IN  THAT  CITY,  AND  THE  REV.  HAR- 
VEY CURTIS,  D.D.,  PASTOR  OF  THE  FIRST 
CHURCH,  IN  COMPANY  WITH  THE  REV.  IRA 
M.  WEED  OF  WAUKEGAN,  CAME  OUT  ON  THE 
NORTHWESTERN  ROAD  AS  FAR  AS  THE 
PRESENT  "FARWELL'S  CROSSING"  IN  LAKE 
FOREST.  PERSUADING  THE  CONDUCTOR  TO 
STOP  FOR  THEM,  FOR  THERE  WAS  THEN  NO 
STATION  BETWEEN  HIGHLAND  PARK  AND 
WAUKEGAN,  THEY  STRUCK  OFF  THROUGH 
THE  WOODS  TO  THE  NORTHEAST  UNTIL  THEY 
CAME  TO  LAKE  MICHIGAN  WHERE  DEERPATH 
AVENUE  NOW  REACHES  IT.  THEY  WERE 
SURPRISED  AT  THE  DEEP  RAVINES  AND  THE 
HIGH  BLUFFS,  AND,  CALLING  THE  LOCATION 
"LAKE  FOREST,"  THEY  DETERMINED  TO 
LOCATE  THEIR  UNDERTAKING  HERE.  ON 
FEBRUARY  26,  1856,  A  MEETING  OF  SUB- 
SCRIBERS TO  A  PURCHASE  AND  IMPROVE- 
MENT FUND  WAS  HELD,  AND  HIRAM  F. 
MATHER,  PETER  PAGE,  DAVID  J.  LAKE, 
THOMAS  R.  CLARK,  AND  FRANKLIN  RIPLEY, 
JR.,  WERE  APPOINTED  TRUSTEES  FOR  THE 


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"LAKE     FOREST     ASSOCIATION,"     AND     IN- 
STRUCTED TO  PURCHASE  LANDS,  FIFTY  ACRES 

OF  WHICH  WERE  TO  BE  SET  APART  FOR  A 
SCHOOL  SITE,  AND  THE  RESIDUE  TO  BE 
DIVIDED  EQUALLY  BETWEEN  THE  ASSOCIA- 
TION AND  THE  INSTITUTION  OF  LEARNING. 
FOURTEEN  HUNDRED  ACRES  WERE  PUR- 
CHASED, MOST  OF  WHICH  WAS  COVERED 
BY  ORIGINAL  FOREST,  WHILST  EIGHT  FARM- 
STEAD CLEARINGS  WERE  INCLUDED.  THE 
PRICES  PAID  RANGED  FROM  TWENTY  TO 
FORTY-FIVE  DOLLARS  AN  ACRE,  AND  IN  A 
FEW  CASES  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS.  IN 
JULY,  1857,  A  PUBLIC  SALE  WAS  HAD  OF 
THE  650  ACRES  RETAINED  BY  THE  ASSO- 
CIATION, THE  PURCHASERS  BEING  THE  MEM- 
BERS OF  THE  ASSOCIATION  AND  THEIR 
FRIENDS  WHOM  THEY  DESIRED  AS  NEIGH- 
BORS. JED  HOTCHKISS,  A  TOPOGRAPHER  OF 
WIDE  REPUTATION,  LAID  OUT  THE  PROS- 
PECTIVE TOWN  WITH  THE  WINDING  STREETS 
THAT  EVER  SINCE  HAVE  BEEN  A  SOURCE  OF 
PRIDE  TO  THE  INHABITANTS  AND  A  BE- 
WILDERING MAZE  TO  THE  NEWLY-ARRIVED. 
THE  MAP,  COLORED  IN  YELLOW  FOR  THE 
ASSOCIATION  LANDS  AND  IN  RED  FOR  THOSE 
SET  APART  FOR  UNIVERSITY  ENDOWMENT, 
WAS  RECORDED  JULY  22,  1857. 
THE  FIRST  BUILDING  PUT  UP  IN  LAKE  FOREST 
WAS  THE  LAKE  FOREST  HOTEL,  ON  THE  TRI- 
ANGLE ENCLOSED  BY  DEERPATH,  WASHING- 
TON, AND  WALNUT  AVENUES.  IT  COST  SIXTY- 
FOUR  HUNDRED  DOLLARS,  AND  WAS  A  FINE 
HOTEL  FOR  THOSE  DAYS.  IT  WAS  OPENED 
IN  THE  SUMMER  OF  1858  TO  PROSPECTIVE 
PURCHASERS  OF  TOWN  LOTS,  AND  AMONG 
THE  EARLIEST  GUESTS  WERE  D.  R.  HOLT  AND 
LOCKWOOD  BROWN.  IT  WAS  KEPT  OPEN 
BY  VARIOUS  MANAGERS  UNTIL  A  NEW  HOTEL 
ON  THE  LAKE  FRONT  PUT  AN  END  TO  ITS 
ACTIVITY  IN  1871.  THE  FIRST  "LAKE 
FOREST  ACADEMY"  BUILDING  STOOD  ON  THE 
WESTERN  PORTION  OF  THE  "DURAND  IN- 
STITUTE" CAMPUS  AND  WAS  READY  FOR 
OCCUPANCY  IN  JANUARY,  1859.  THE  FIRST 
"SEMINARY  FOR  YOUNG  LADIES"  WAS  A 
PRIVATE  INSTITUTION,  LOCATED  WHERE 
MR.  HARRY  C.  DURAND  NOW  LIVES,  AND 


READY  IN  1859  FOR  OCCUPANCY  BY  THE 
REV.  BAXTER  DICKINSON,  D.D.,  AND  HIS 
FOUR  ACCOMPLISHED  DAUGHTERS.  WIL- 
LIAM M.  LOUGHLIN,  THE  BUILDER  OF  THESE 
SCHOOL  BUILDINGS,  PUT  UP  FOR  HIMSELF, 
IN  1858,  THE  FIRST  RESIDENCE  IN  LAKE 
FOREST,  ORIGINALLY  LOCATED  ON  THE  AR- 
THUR D.  WHEELER  GROUNDS,  BUT  NOW  THE 
HOME  OF  W.  O.  KILMAN.  THE  ORIGINAL  OF 
THE  PRESENT  HOME  OF  THE  J.  T.  WADS- 
WORTHS  WAS  BUILT  IN  1859.  IN  THE  SAME 
YEAR  WAS  BUILT  THE  PRESENT  HOME  OF 
MR.  THOMAS  APPLETON;  THE  PREDECESSOR 
OF  THE  RUSSELL  D.  HILL  HOUSE  AS  A  RESI- 
DENCE FOR  PRINCIPAL  MILLER  OF  THE 
ACADEMY;  THE  PREDECESSOR  OF  THE  PRES- 
ENT PHILIP  JAMES  HOME  AS  THE  RESIDENCE 
OF  SYLVESTER  LIND;  AND  THE  PREDECESSOR 
OF  THE  ISRAEL  P.  RUMSEY  HOME  AS  THE 
RESIDENCE  OF  DR.  CHARLES  H.  QUINLAN. 
MR.  LIND  AND  DR.  QUINLAN  WERE  TWO 
AMONG  THE  HALF-DOZEN  MEN  WHO  AS  PIO- 
NEERS WERE  MOST  RESPONSIBLE  FOR  THE 
BEGINNINGS  OF  LAKE  FOREST  AND  LAKE 
FOREST  UNIVERSITY.  LONG  BEFORE  THE 
RAILWAY  WAS  BUILT  FROM  CHICAGO  TO 
MILWAUKEE  MR.  LIND  WAS  RIDING  AS  MES- 
SENGER FOR  GEORGE  SMITH'S  BANK  IN 
MILWAUKEE  ON  HIS  WEEKLY  ROUND  TO  THE 
CHICAGO  BRANCH  BANK,  WITH  THE  EX- 
CHANGES IN  HIS  SADDLE  BAGS,  AND  SELECT- 
ING THE  SITE  OF  HIS  FUTURE  HOME.  DR. 
QUINLAN  WAS  THE  FIRST  PHYSICIAN  IN 
CHICAGO  TO  PRODUCE  ANESTHESIA  BY  THE 
USE  OF  SULPHURIC  ETHER. 

THE  FIRST  BUSINESS  HOUSE  WAS  BUILT  FOR 
JAMES  H.  WRIGHT  IN  1859.  IT  STOOD  ON 
THE  NORTHEAST  CORNER  OF  DEERPATH  AND 
MCKINLEY  AVENUES.  DR.  QUINLAN  BOUGHT 
IT,  AND  RENTED  IT  TO  JOEL  H.  HULBERD, 
WHO  LIVED  ABOVE,  AND  CAME  DOWN  AND 
OPENED  STORE  WHEN  ANYONE  WANTED  TO 
BUY  ANYTHING.  THE  TOWN  TRUSTEES  FOR 
SOME  TIME  HELD  THEIR  MEETINGS  ON  THE 
SECOND  FLOOR.  F.  B.  BURCHARD  BOUGHT 
THE  STORE  WITH  THE  STOCK,  AND  KEPT  IT 
TILL  1862,  AND  JAMES  ANDERSON  KEPT 
IT  TILL  1867.  THEN  HE  SOLD  THE  BUILD- 


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Lake  Forest  Churches 


ING,  WHICH  WAS  MOVED  AND  REBUILT,  REAP- 
PEARING IN  THE  HOME  OF  E.  S.  BARNUM, 
NOW  OCCUPIED  BY  MR.  EDWARD  SAMUEL. 
BURCHARD  THEN  BUILT  A  SECOND  STORE 
ON  THE  SOUTHEAST  DEERPATH  CORNER, 
AND  KEPT  IT  SEVERAL  YEARS.  THIS  WAS 
MOVED  ACROSS  THE  RAILWAY  TO  THE  SOUTH- 
WEST CORNER  IN  1867,  AND  KEPT  AS  A  GEN- 
ERAL STORE  BY  JAMES  ANDERSON.  IN  1867 
AUGUSTUS  TAYLOR  OPENED  THE  FIRST  MEAT 
MARKET,  ON  THE  NORTHWEST  CORNER,  IN 
A  BUILDING  THAT  WAS  LATER  MOVED  TO 
THE  SOUTHWEST  CORNER.  HERE  SAMUEL 
BLACKLER  SUCCEEDED  TO  THE  BUSINESS 
IN  1874,  AND  HE  BUILT  HIS  FINE  BLOCK 
HERE  IN  1895.  ANDERSON  CONTINUED  THE 
GROCERY  BUSINESS  AFTER  1870  ON  THE 
NORTHWEST  CORNER,  AND  BUILT  THE  NEW 
BLOCK  HERE  IN  1906.  JOSEPH  O'NEILL 
OPENED  THE  FIRST  HARDWARE  STORE,  IN 
l868,  OPPOSITE  THE  RAILWAY  STATION. 
CAPTAIN  JAMES  H.  STOKES  BUILT  IN  1860 
HIS  VERY  FINE  HOUSE  ON  DEERPATH  AVENUE, 
WHERE  MR.  H.  C.  DURAND  AFTERWARDS 
LIVED  FOR  SO  MANY  YEARS.  IT  WAS  AFTER- 
WARD THE  HOME  OF  MR.  CLAYTON  MARK 
UNTIL  BURNED  IN  IQI2.  MR.  AND  MRS. 
FINLEY  BARRELL  ARE  NOW  BUILDING  THEIR 
SECOND  HOME  THERE.  CAPTAIN  STOKES 
WAS  A  GRADUATE  OF  WEST  POINT,  AND  AT 
THE  OUTBREAK  OF  THE  CIVIL  WAR  ENLISTED 
FROM  LAKE  FOREST.  HE  COMMANDED  THE 
FAMOUS  BOARD  OF  TRADE  BATTERY,  AND 
ADVANCED  TO  THE  RANK  OF  BRIGADIER- 
GENERAL  OF  VOLUNTEERS.  D.  R.  HOLT 
ALSO  BUILT  "THE  HOMESTEAD"  IN  1860. 
IN  l86l  HARVEY  M.  THOMPSON  BUILT  THE 
RESIDENCE  WEST  OF  THE  COLLEGE,  SO  LONG 
THE  HOME  OF  THE  JOSEPH  B.  DURAND 
FAMILY,  AND  NOW  OCCUPIED  BY  MR.  AND 
MRS.  G.  P.  FISHER.  H.  G.  SHUMWAY  BUILT 
THE  MORE  RECENT  WARREN  HOME  ON  THE 
SITE  NOW  OCCUPIED  BY  THE  FINLEY  BAR- 
RELLS,  AND  GILBERT  ROSSITER  THE  HOUSE 
OCCUPIED  BY  HIM  AND  HIS  DESCENDANTS  UN- 
TIL FOUR  OR  FIVE  YEARS  AGO,  WHEN  IT  WAS 
MOVED  ALONGSIDE  THE  GORTON  SCHOOL.  IN 
l86l  CHARLES  B.  FARWELL  BEGAN  TO  COME 


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FOR  THE  SUMMERS  TO 
LIVE  WITH  MR.  LIND, 
ALTHOUGH  IT  WAS 
NOT  UNTIL  1871  THAT 
HE  ESTABLISHED  HIS 
FAMILY  AT  THE  WELL- 
KNOWN  "FAIRLAWN," 

NOW  EQUALLY  WELL- 
KNOWN  AS  THE  HOME 
OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  HO- 
BART  C.  CHATFIELD- 
TAYLOR.  IN  1862 
HENRY  T.  HELM  BUILT 
WHERE  LATER  WAS 
THE  YAGGY  HOME, 
NOW  THAT  OF  MR. 
AND  MRS.  W.  O.  LIND- 
LEY.  IN  1863  THE 

Cloister  of  the  Reid        s.  j.  LEARNED   HOUSE 
Chapel  WAS    BUILT    FOR    THE 

REV.   W.    C.  DICKINSON, 

AND  WHERE  MR.  AND  MRS.  JAMES  VILES 
NOW  HAVE  THEIR  HOME  ALONZO  SAWYER 
BUILT.  IN  1864  W.  S.  JOHNSTON  BUILT 
AS  A  RESIDENCE  WHAT  IS  NOW  "DEER- 
PATH  INN."  AMZI  BENEDICT  IN  1865  BUILT 
ON  THE  CORNER  NORTH  OF  MR.  FARWELL 
THE  PRESENT  HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  R. 
H.  McELWEE,  AND  E.  L.  CANFIELD  BUILT 
THE  FIRST  BRICK  RESIDENCE,  NOW  RE- 
PLACED BY  THE  HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  H.  L. 

MCCULLOUGH.     IN    1870  JOHN   v.   FARWELL 

BUILT  A  HOUSE  OF  CONCRETE,  WHICH  IS  NOW 
THE  HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  THOMAS  B.  MARS- 
TON,  AND  MR.  WILLIAM  H.  FERRY  BUILT  A 
GREAT  BRICK  RESIDENCE,  NOW  REPLACED  BY 
THAT  OF  MR.  BERNARD  ECKHART.  IN  THE 
SAME  YEAR  P.  W.  PAGE  BUILT  ON  THE  LATER 
CHARLES  DURAND  PLACE,  WHERE  THE 
DONALD  R.  MCLENNAN  HOME  NOW  IS,  WIL- 
LIAM V.  KAY  WHERE  MR.  ABRAM  POOLE 
LATER  HAD  HIS  HOME,  AND  D.  J.  LAKE  WHERE 
MR.  BYRNE  NOW  LIVES.  SO  THE  SETTLE- 
MENT WAS  MADE  BEFORE  THE  CHICAGO  FIRE. 
A  PRIMARY  MEETING  WAS  HELD  JUNE  3, 
1859,  AT  THE  RESIDENCE  OF  MR.  SYLVESTER 
LIND,  AND  A  CALL  WAS  ISSUED  FOR  A  PUBLIC 
MEETING  TO  CONSIDER  THE  EXPEDIENCY  OF 


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ORGANIZING  AS  A  TOWN  UNDER  THE  GENERAL 
STATUTE.  THE  CALL  SUMMONED  ALL  RESI- 
DENTS FOR  SIX  MONTHS  AND  FREEHOLDERS 
TO  VOTE  ON  THE  PROPOSITION.  THE  ELEC- 
TION WAS  HELD  ON  JUNE  I  7  AT  THE  HOTEL, 
AND  ORGANIZATION  WAS  VOTED.  AT  AN 
ELECTION  WHICH  FOLLOWED  ON  JUNE  22, 
FIVE  TOWN  TRUSTEES  WERE  ELECTED  BY 
TWENTY-FOUR  VOTERS.  THE  FIVE  WERE 
THOMAS  R.  CLARK,  WHO  WAS  CHOSEN  PRESI- 
DENT OF  THE  BOARD,  ERASTUS  BAILEY, 
CHARLES  H.  QUINLAN,  WILLIAM  M.  LOUGHLIN, 
AND  HARVEY  L.  HOUSE. 

BY  AN  ACT  OF  THE  STATE  LEGISLATURE 
APPROVED  FEBRUARY  21,  l86l,  THE  "CITY 

OF  LAKE  FOREST"  WAS  INCORPORATED. 
THE  OFFICERS,  TO  BE  ELECTED  ON  THE  SEC- 
OND TUESDAY  IN  EACH  YEAR,  WERE  TO  BE  A 
MAYOR,  ONE  ALDERMAN  FROM  EACH  WARD, 
CITY  TREASURER,  ASSESSOR,  MARSHAL  AND 
COLLECTOR  IN  ONE,  AND  SUPERVISOR  OF 
PUBLIC  WORKS.  OFFICERS  TO  BE  CHOSEN 
BY  THE  COUNCIL  WERE  TO  BE  A  CITY  CLERK, 
A  SURVEYOR  AND  ENGINEER,  AND  A  CITY 
ATTORNEY,  ALL  TO  BE  APPOINTED  ON  THE 
MONDAY  AFTER  THE  SECOND  TUESDAY  IN 
APRIL.  THE  MAYOR  AND  ALDERMEN  MUST 
BE  FREEHOLDERS. 

A  SECTION  OF  THE  CHARTER  DECLARES  THAT 
"IT  SHALL  NOT  BE  LAWFUL  FOR  ANY  PERSON 
TO  MAKE  OR  SELL,  OR  KEEP  FOR  SALE,  ANY 
SPIRITOUS  OR  INTOXICATING  LIQUORS  ANY- 
WHERE WITHIN  THE  CORPORATE  TOWNSHIP 
WITHIN  WHICH  THE  SAID  CITY  OF  LAKE 
FOREST  IS  SITUATED."  THIS  APPLIES  TO 
THE  TOWNSHIP  OF  DEERFIELD  AS  WELL  AS 
TO  THAT  OF  SHIELDS.  THE  PENALTY  FOR 
VIOLATION  OF  THIS  PROHIBITION  IS  A  FINE 
OF  NOT  MORE  THAN  ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS 
FOR  EACH  OFFENCE,  AND  COMMITMENT  TO 
JAIL  UNTIL  FINE  AND  COSTS  BE  PAID. 
AN  ELECTION  WAS  HELD  MARCH  23,  AT 
WHICH  TWENTY-NINE  VOTES  WERE  CAST  FOR 
ACCEPTANCE  OF  THE  CHARTER,  AND  FOUR 
AGAINST.  AN  ELECTION  FOR  OFFICERS  WAS 
HELD  APRIL  9,  AT  WHICH  HARVEY  M.  THOMP- 
SON WAS  CHOSEN  MAYOR,  ERASTUS  BAILEY 
AND  J.  H.  HULBERD  ALDERMEN  FOR  THE 


FIRST  WARD,  NORTH  OF  DEERPATH  AVENUE, 
AND  W.  M.  LOUGHLIN  AND  LUTHER  ROSSITER 
ALDERMEN  FOR  THE  SECOND  WARD,  SOUTH 
OF  DEERPATH  AVENUE.  NX)  THIRD  WARD 
WAS  CREATED  UNTIL  1866,  WHEN  THE  TER- 
RITORY WEST  OF  THE  RAILWAY  WAS  SET 
APART. 

THE    MAYORS    OF    LAKE    FOREST    HAVE    BEEN: 
HARVEY     M.     THOMPSON,     1861-6$;      1867-68. 
WILLIAM    S.     JOHNSTON,     1865-66. 
DAVID   J.   LAKE,    1866-67. 
SYLVESTER    LIND,     1868-70;     1874-77;     1878- 

79J    1881-84;    1885-86. 
SAMUEL    EZRA    BARNUM,     1870-71;     1872-74; 

1879-81. 

JOHN    V.    FARWELL,    1871-72. 
AMZI    BENEDICT,     1877-78;     1884-85. 
JOSEPH    B.    DURAND,    1886-88. 
M.     L.     SCUDDER,     1888-89. 
WALTER  C.   LARNED,    1889-91. 
CALVIN   DURAND,    1891-95. 
EDWARD   P.    GORTON,    1895-1902. 
MARK    MORTON,    1902-03. 

FREDRIK    HERMAN    CADE,    1903-06;     1909-10. 
DAVID    H.    JACKSON,    1906-09. 
J.     FREDERICK     CHILDS,     igiO-II. 
JOHN    T.    PIRIE,    JR.,    1911-14. 
LEVERETT     THOMPSON,     1914-15. 
WILLIAM    MATHER   LEWIS,    1915-. 
IN    1856    MR.    SYLVESTER    LIND,    OF    CHICAGO, 
OFFERED    TO    MAKE    OVER    TO    THE    TRUSTEES 
OF     THE     PROPOSED     EDUCATIONAL     INSTITU- 
TION   AT    LAKE    FOREST    SIX    ACRES    OF    VALU- 
ABLE LAND  NEAR  RANDOLPH  STREET  BRIDGE, 
VALUED     AT     $8o,OOO,    IF     THE     ASSOCIATION 
WOULD       RAISE       $IOO,OOO       FOR       BUILDINGS 
THEREFOR.        A    CHARTER    FOR    LIND    UNIVER- 
SITY      WAS       APPROVED       BY       THE       ILLINOIS 
LEGISLATURE       FEBRUARY       13,       1857,       AND 
TWENTY       TRUSTEES       PROVIDED       FOR.        THE 
TRUSTEES     WERE     AUTHORIZED     TO     RECEIVE 
FROM      THE      LAKE      FOREST      ASSOCIATION      A 
RATIFICATION    OF    ALL   PLEDGES    OF    LAND    OR 
MONEY  MADE  PRIOR  TO  THIS  INCORPORATION. 
IN   JULY,    1857,    A   PUBLIC   SALE    WAS    HAD    OF 
THE     SIX     HUNDRED     AND     FIFTY     ACRES     RE- 
TAINED    BY     THE     LAND      ASSOCIATION,     AND 
$109,000        WAS       REALIZED.       A       FINANCIAL 


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AGENT  WAS  APPOINTED  TO  RAISE  THE  ONE 
HUNDRED  THOUSAND  NECESSARY  TO  SECURE 
THE  GIFT  OF  MR.  LIND.  BUT  THE  FINANCIAL 
PANIC  OF  1857  SO  CRIPPLED  THE  FRIENDS 
OF  THE  INSTITUTION  THAT  LITTLE  MONEY 
COULD  BE  RAISED.  WHEN  BUT  $4,OOO  HAD 
BEEN  SECURED,  IT  WAS  BUILT  INTO  THE 
FIRST  ACADEMY  BUILDING,  ALREADY  MEN- 
TIONED AS  OPENED  IN  JANUARY,  1859. 
NEITHER  TRUSTEES  NOR  DONOR  WERE  ABLE 
TO  MAKE  GOOD  ON  THE  LIND  PLEDGE,  AND 
AN  ACT  OF  LEGISLATURE  IN  1865  CHANGED 
THE  NAME  TO  LAKE  FOREST  UNIVERSITY. 
THOSE  WERE  THE  DAYS  OF  SESQUIPEDALIAN 
NAMES  FOR  ALMOST  ELEMENTARY  INSTI- 
TUTIONS OF  LEARNING,  AND  THE  COLLEGE 
HAS  ALWAYS  BEEN  HANDICAPPED  BY  SO  BIG 
A  NAME.  FOR  THE  LAST  EIGHT  YEARS,  HOW- 
EVER, THE  AUTHORITIES  OF  THE  INSTITU- 
TION HAVE  IN  EVERY  WAY,  EXCEPT  IN  THEIR 
OFFICIAL  DESIGNATION,  PUT  THE  NAME 
"COLLEGE"  TO  THE  FOREFRONT.  "THE 
ACADEMY"  MADE  A  GOOD  RECORD  ALL  ALONE 
FOR  TEN  YEARS,  UNTIL  IN  1869,  IT  WAS 
REINFORCED  BY  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  OF 
"FERRY  HALL  SEMINARY  FOR  YOUNG  LADIES." 
A  GIFT  OF  THIRTY-FIVE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS, 
MADE  IN  l868  BY  THE  REV.  WILLIAM  W. 
FERRY  OF  GRAND  HAVEN,  MICHIGAN,  BEGAN 
THE  ENDOWMENT  OF  THIS  INSTITUTION. 
IN  NOVEMBER,  1870,  THE  LAKE  FOREST 
HOTEL  AND  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY, 
WHICH  HAD  BEEN  FORMED  BY  PROMINENT 


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CHICAGO  CAPITALISTS,  UNDER  AN  ACT  OF 
THE  LEGISLATURE  OF  MARCH  5,  1867, 
BOUGHT  FOR  $8o,OOO  OVER  THREE  HUNDRED 
ACRES  OF  THE  ENDOWMENT  LANDS,  AND 
ERECTED  ON  THE  LAKE  SHORE,  WHERE  THE 
HOME  OF  MR.  CHARLES  H.  SCHWEPPE  NOW 
IS,  A  GRAND  HOTEL  OF  SIX  STORIES  AND 
SIXTY  ROOMS.  AFTER  CONDUCTING  THIS 
HOTEL  AT  A  CONTINUAL  LOSS  FOR  FIVE 
YEARS,  WITH  $4O,OOO  OF  THE  PURCHASE 
MONEY  STILL  UNPAID,  THE  COMPANY  AGREED 
TO  CANCEL  ITS  INDEBTEDNESS  BY  MAKING 
OVER  TO  THE  UNIVERSITY  THE  HOTEL,  WITH 
ITS  TWELVE  ACRES  OF  PARK.  THE  ACQUISI- 
TION OF  THIS  BUILDING,  IN  1875,  BROUGHT 
TO  THE  ASSISTANCE  OF  THE  TRUSTEES  OF 
THE  COLLEGE  A  FAR-SIGHTED  WOMAN,  WHOSE 
PURPOSES  BROUGHT  ABOUT  THE  REALIZA- 
TION OF  THE  CHARTER  GRANTED  NEARLY 
TWENTY  YEARS  BEFORE.  MR.  AND  MRS. 
C.  B.  FARWELL  HAD  LONG  RESIDED  IN  LAKE 
FOREST.  BUT  THE  APPROACHING  GRADUA- 
TION OF  THEIR  OLDEST  DAUGHTER  FROM  THE 
CHICAGO  HIGH  SCHOOL  LED  MRS.  FARWELL 
TO  THE  FOUNDATION  OF  THE  COLLEGE.  AS 
A  FOUNDER,  SHE  GRASPED  FORTY  YEARS 
AGO,  AN  EDUCATIONAL  IDEA  WHICH  WAS 
THEN  NOVEL  AND  ALMOST  UNTRIED,  AND 
SHE  HAD  FAITH  TO  PUT  IT  IN  PRACTICE. 
SHE  FOUND  NO  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTION  OF 
A  GOOD  GRADE  OF  SCHOLARSHIP,  NOT  UNDER 
STATE  CONTROL,  IN  WHICH  A  WOMAN"  MIGHT 
GAIN  AN  EDUCATION  SUCH  AS  MEN  ENJOYED. 
HER  SOLUTION  OF  THE  DIFFICULTY  WAS  CO- 
EDUCATION, AND  AN  INSTITUTION  OF  THAT 
TYPE  IN  THE  NEIGHBORHOOD  OF  CHICAGO. 
THE  UNUSED  CHARTER  WAS  BROUGHT  FORTH, 
A  GOODLY  PORTION  OF  THE  GRADUATING 
CLASS  OF  THE  ONE  CHICAGO  HIGH  SCHOOL 
WAS  BOOKED  FOR  THE  NEW  VENTURE,  AND 
THE  COLLEGE  WAS  BEGUN  SEPTEMBER  7, 
1876,  IN  THE  HOTEL,  WITH  A  FRESHMAN 
CLASS  OF  EIGHT  YOUNG  MEN  AND  FOUR 
YOUNG  WOMEN  —  A  PROPORTION  WHICH  HAS 
BEEN  PRESERVED,  IN  THE  AVERAGE,  EVER 
SINCE. 

REV.   ROBERT   W.  PATTERSON,  D.D.,   WHO  HAD 
BEEN   SO   ACTIVE   IN  THE   ORIGINAL   WORK   OF 


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ORGANIZATION,  WAS  CHOSEN  THE  FIRST 
PRESIDENT,  AND  GATHERED  ABOUT  HIM  A 
FACULTY  OF  THREE.  BUT  IN  DECEMBER 
OF  1877  THE  COLLEGE  BUILDING  WAS  DE- 
STROYED BY  FIRE,  AND  THE  HOPEFUL  PROS- 
PECTS OF  THE  YOUNG  INSTITUTION  SEEMED 
TO  BE  AT  AN  END.  BUT  IN  A  FEW  WEEKS 
CLASSES  WERE  RESUMED  IN  THE  OLDER 
HOTEL  BUILDING  ON  THE  "TRIANGLE." 
PRESIDENT  PATTERSON  WAS  CALLED  ELSE- 
WHERE, BUT  UNDER  THE  DIRECTION  OF 
ACTING  PRESIDENT  JOHN  H.  HEWITT  NEW 
HOPE  WAS  TAKEN.  MR.  C.  B.  FARWELL 
GAVE  GENEROUSLY  TO  THE  ENDOWMENT, 
AND  CONTINUED  TO  DO  SO  UNTIL  HE  GAVE 
A  TOTAL  OF  NEARLY  THREE  HUNDRED 
THOUSAND  DOLLARS.  REV.  DANIEL  S.  GREG- 
ORY, D.D.,  AN  EXPERIENCED  EDUCATOR,  WAS 
BROUGHT  FROM  WOOSTER  COLLEGE  TO 
ASSUME  THE  PRESIDENCY  IN  JUNE,  1878, 
AND  IN  THE  SEPTEMBER  FOLLOWING  A 
SUBSTANTIAL  COLLEGE  BUILDING,  WITH 
CHAPEL,  LIBRARY,  HALLS,  AND  DORMITORY 
ACCOMMODATIONS,  WAS  READY  FOR  OCCU- 
PANCY. THIS,  THE  FIRST  OF  THE  MANY 
BUILDINGS  NOW  ON  THE  CAMPUS,  IS  THE 
PRESENT  "OLD  COLLEGE  HALL."  IN  THE 
FOLLOWING  YEAR  THE  ACADEMY  WAS  RE- 
MOVED TO  A  NEW  BUILDING  ON  THE  CENTRAL 
CAMPUS,  NOW  KNOWN  AS  "NORTH  HALL." 
THE  FINE  "DURAND  INSTITUTE"  WAS  BUILT 
IN  1891,  AND  ALSO  THE  GYMNASIUM.  IX 
1892  THE  ACADEMY  WAS  FINALLY  LOCATED 
ON  ITS  PRESENT  SITE,  IN  REID  HALL,  ANNIE 
DURAND  COTTAGE,  AND  EAST  BUILDING,  TO 
WHICH  IN  1894  WAS  ADDED  REMSEN  COT- 
TAGE. THESE  BUILDINGS  WERE  THE  GIFTS 
OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  SIMON  S.  REID,  MR.  AND 
MRS.  HENRY  C.  DURAND,  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
EZRA  J.  WARNER.  IN  1897  MR.  AND  MRS. 
DURAND  GAVE  LOIS  DURAND  HALL  FOR 
COLLEGE  WOMEN,  AND  THE  NEXT  YEAR 
ALICE  HOME  HOSPITAL.  IN  1899  MRS.  REID 
GAVE  THE  LILY  REID  HOLT  CHAPEL  AND 
THE  ARTHUR  SOMERVILLE  REID  LIBRARY  AS 
MEMORIALS  FOR  HER  CHILDREN.  IN  1902 
MR.  J.  HENRY  SMITH  OF  NEW  YORK  GAVE 
THE  GEORGE  SMITH  HALL  TO  FERRY  HALL 


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Entrance  of  the  Edward  F.  Gorton  School 


CAMPUS.  IX  1906  MRS.  TIMOTHY  BLACK- 
STONE  GAVE  TWO  BEAUTIFUL  RESIDENCES 
FOR  MEN,  BLACKSTONE  HALL  AND  HARLAN 
HALL.  AT  THE  SAME  TIME  MR.  CALVIN 
DURAND  GAVE  THE  DURAND  COMMONS,  AND 
MR.  ANDREW  CARNEGIE  THE  CARNEGIE 
SCIENCE  HALL. 

THE  PRESENT  VALUE  OF  THE  CAMPUS  LANDS 
IS  $20O,OOO,  AND  OF  THE  BUILDINGS  $750,- 
OOO.  THE  COLLEGE  ENDOWMENT  FUNDS 
AMOUNT  TO  ONE  MILLION  DOLLARS. 
THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF  PRESIDENT  GREG- 
ORY CONTINUED  UNTIL  THE  SUMMER  OF 
l886,  WHEN,  BROKEN  IN  HEALTH,  HE  RE- 
TIRED, AFTER  A  SERVICE  OF  EIGHT  YEARS 
FILLED  WITH  INDEFATIGABLE  AND  DAUNT- 
LESS EFFORTS  FOR  THE  INSTITUTION.  FOUR- 
TEEN THOUSAND  DOLLARS  IN  SCHOLARSHIP 
FUNDS  AND  EIGHTY  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  IN 
BUILDINGS  WERE  THE  MATERIAL  RESULTS 
OF  THESE  EIGHT  YEARS.  THE  IMMATERIAL 
RESULTS  REMAIN  IN  A  SCHOOL  GROUNDED 
ON  A  SECURE  BASIS  OF  CAREFUL  AND 
THOROUGH  WORK  IN  THE  CLASSROOM  AND 
LABORATORY.  A  HIGH  STANDARD  OF  WORK, 
THE  VALUE  OF  IDEAS  IN  THE  FACE  OF  A 
MATERIAL  WORLD,  CAREFUL  AND  SYSTE- 
MATIC THINKING,  AND  A  CLOSE  AND  PER- 
SONAL RELATION  BETWEEN  THE  PRESIDENT 
AND  EVERY  STUDENT,  WERE  THE  CON- 
TRIBUTION OF  PRESIDENT  GREGORY  TO  THE 
TRADITIONS  OF  LAKE  FOREST. 
IN  AUGUST,  1886,  REV.  WILLIAM  C.  ROBERTS, 
D.D.,  LL.D.,  ONE  OF  THE  SECRETARIES  OF  THE 
PRESBYTERIAN  BOARD  OF  HOME  MISSIONS, 
WAS  CHOSEN  TO  SUCCEED  DR.  GREGORY,  AND 
THE  TRUSTEES  PLEDGED  HIM  AN  ENDOW- 
MENT FUND  OF  ONE  MILLION  DOLLARS,  TO 
BE  RAISED  IN  FIVE  YEARS.  HIS  WORK  AS  A 
SECRETARY  HAD  MADE  DR.  ROBERTS  WELL 
KNOWN  TO  THE  PRESBYTERIANS  OF  THE 
WHOLE  COUNTRY;  HIS  CHAIRMANSHIP  FOR 
TWENTY  YEARS  OF  THE  INSTRUCTION  COM- 
MITTEE OF  THE  BOARD  OF  PRINCETON  COL- 
LEGE HAD  FAMILIARIZED  HIM  WITH  COLLEGE 
MANAGEMENT,  AND  HIS  ADMINISTRATION 
OF  LARGE  BUSINESS  TRUSTS  IN  NEW  YORK 
CITY  HAD  FITTED  HIM  TO  UNDERSTAND  THE 


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A  Lake  Forest  Vista 


METHODS 
AND  P  S  Y- 
CHOLOGICAL 
PROCESSES 
OF  THE  BUSI- 
NESS MIND. 
TWO  HUN- 
DRED THOUS- 
AND DOLLARS 
WAS  SECURED 
BY  JANUARY, 

1888,  BUT 
LITTLE  MORE 
WAS  DONE  IN 
THAT      YEAR. 
IN       APRIL, 

1889,  DR. 
ROBERTS  AN- 
NOUNCED   TO 
THE        TRUS- 
TEES     THAT 
HIS     ACCEPT- 
A  N  C  E        OF 
THE     PRESI- 
DENCY   HAD    BEEN     BASED     ON     THE     UNDER- 
STANDING THAT  $200,OOO  SHOULD   BE  ADDED 
TO    THE    ENDOWMENT    EACH    YEAR    FOR    FIVE 
YEARS.        MR.  D.   K.    PEARSONS   NOW   OFFERED 
TO     GIVE    $IOO,OOO,   IF    $4OO,OOO    SHOULD    BE 
RAISED      BY      COMMENCEMENT.          THIS      WAS 
ACCOMPLISHED,    MAKING     A     TOTAL     ENDOW- 
MENT   OF    $600,000.       IN    APRIL,    1892,   PRESI- 
DENT   ROBERTS    RESIGNED    HIS    POSITION    TO 
RETURN    TO    THE    WORK     OF    THE     BOARD     OF 
HOME     MISSIONS. 

THE  REV.  JAMES  G.  K.  MCCLURE,  D.D.,  PASTOR 
OF  THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  OF  LAKE  FOR- 
EST, WAS  CHOSEN  PRESIDENT  PRO  TEMPORE, 
A  POSITION  HE  HELD  UNTIL  JUNE,  1893, 
WHEN  JOHN  M.  COULTER,  PH.D.,  THE  DIS- 
TINGUISHED BIOLOGIST,  WAS  BROUGHT  FROM 
THE  PRESIDENCY  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 
INDIANA  TO  BE  PRESIDENT  OF  OUR  UNIVER- 
SITY. UNDER  HIS  MANAGEMENT  THE  CURRIC- 
ULUM WAS  REORGANIZED  MORE  IN  ACCORD- 
ANCE WITH  THE  SCIENTIFIC  PROGRESS  OF 
THE  PERIOD,  AND  THE  SCHOLASTIC  BASIS 
OF  THE  INSTITUTION  WAS  BROADENED.  IN 


FEBRUARY,  1896,  DR.  COULTER  WENT  TO  A 
CHAIR  OF  BIOLOGY  IN  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF 
CHICAGO,  AND  PROF.  JOHN  J.  HALSEY  SERVED 
AS  ACTING  PRESIDENT  UNTIL  SEPTEMBER, 
1897,  WHEN  DR.  MCCLURE  SUCCEEDED  .  TO 
THE  PRESIDENCY.  AS  HE  CONTINUED  IN 
THE  PASTORATE  OF  THE  CHURCH,  THE  BUR- 
DEN OF  DOUBLE  DUTIES  PROVED  TOO  EX- 
ACTING, AND  IN  SEPTEMBER,  1899,  PROF. 
HALSEY  WAS  APPOINTED  DEAN  OF  FACULTY 
WITH  THE  ADMINISTRATIVE  DUTIES  IN- 
VOLVED IN  THE  EDUCATIONAL  AND  DIS- 
CIPLINARY MANAGEMENT.  PRESIDENT 
MCCLURE  ADDED  $125, OOO  TO  THE  ENDOW- 
MENT FUND,  WHEN  HE  INDUCED  MR.  D.  K. 
PEARSONS  TO  OFFER  $25, OOO,  CONDITIONED 
ON  THE  PRESIDENT  RAISING  $IOO,OOO  AD- 
DITIONAL. THE  PROMPT  ACCOMPLISHMENT 
OF  THIS  ENGAGEMENT  WAS  A  FINANCIAL 
ACHIEVEMENT  TO  BE  RANKED  WITH  THAT 
OF  1889. 

IN  JUNE,  1901,  PRESIDENT  MCCLURE  WAS 
SUCCEEDED  BY  THE  REV.  RICHARD  DAVEN- 
PORT HARLAN,  WHO  DURING  HIS  ADMIN- 
ISTRATION ADDED  THE  FIVE  BEAUTIFUL 

BUILDINGS    ALREADY    MENTIONED GEORGE 

SMITH  HALL,  BLACKSTONE  AND  HARLAN 
HALL,  DURAND  COMMONS,  AND  CARNEGIE 
SCIENCE  HALL.  PRESIDENT  HARLAN  RE- 
SIGNED IN  DECEMBER,  1906,  AND  PROF. 
HALSEY  FILLED  OUT  THE  ACADEMIC  YEAR. 
IN  JUNE,  1907,  JOHN  SCHOLTE  NOLLEN, 
PH.D.,  PROFESSOR  OF  MODERN  LANGUAGES 
IN  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  INDIANA,  WAS 
CHOSEN  TO  THE  PRESIDENCY.  HE  BROUGHT 
TO  THE  TASK  CLEAR  VISION,  GOOD  JUDG- 
MENT, FAIR  DEALING,  IMPERTURBABLE  SELF- 
CONTROL,  A  LARGE  CAPACITY  FOR  WORK,  AND 
A  PREVIOUS  CAREER  AS  A  SUCCESSFUL 
EDUCATOR.  HE  HAS  BEEN  ABLE,  THROUGH 
HIS  LIFE-LONG  TRAINING  FOR  THE  POSITION, 
TO  GAIN  FOR  LAKE  FOREST  COLLEGE  AN 
ACADEMIC  RECOGNITION  NEVER  BEFORE 
ACCORDED  TO  ITS  MERITS.  THESE  LAST 
HAVE  BEEN  RECENTLY  CONSPICUOUSLY 
"GAZETTED"  BY  THE  SPECIAL  INVESTIGATOR 
FOR  THE  FEDERAL  GOVERNMENT.  HE  HAS 
ALSO  PROVED  A  MOST  SUCCESSFUL  SOLICITOR 


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FOR  THE  ENDOWMENT,  AND  HIS  RECENT 
ACHIEVEMENT  OF  AN  ADDITION  OF  HALF  A 
MILLION  DOLLARS  TO  THIS  FUND  AT  A  TIME 
WHEN  A  WAR  OF  WORLD-WIDE  PROPORTIONS 
WAS  WRECKING  VALUES  AND  TIGHTENING 
POCKET-BOOKS  GIVES  HIM  A  RANK  AMONG 
GREAT  COLLEGE  PROMOTERS. 
TWELVE  YEARS  AGO  A  RIVAL  TO  FERRY  HALL 
CAME  IN  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  ON  THE  OLD 
HELM  ESTATE  OF  THE  "ACADEMY  OF  THE 
SACRED  HEART,"  NOW  UNDER  THE  SUPER- 
VISION OF  MOTHER  FOX,  SUPERIOR  VICAR. 
THE  CONVENT  HAS  FIFTY  RELIGIOUS,  AND 
THE  SCHOOL  FIVE  LAY  TEACHERS.  NO 
MORE  THOROUGH  OR  ACCEPTABLE  SCHOOL 
OF  ITS  KIND  CAN  BE  FOUND  IN  AMERICA, 
AND  ITS  RELIGIOUS  AND  SCHOLASTIC  IN- 
FLUENCE IS  WIDESPREAD  IN  CHICAGO  AND 
THE  MIDDLE  WEST  THROUGH  ITS  GRADU- 
ATES. 

THE  FIRST  CHURCH  IN  SHIELDS  TOWNSHIP 
WAS  BUILT  IN  1853,  AND  WAS  CALLED  ST. 
PATRICK'S,  OR  MORE  AFFECTIONATELY  THE 
"CORDUROY"  CHURCH,  FROM  THE  CORDUROY 
BRIDGE  JUST  SOUTH  OF  IT.  IT  STOOD  ON 
THE  TELEGRAPH  ROAD  OPPOSITE  MR.  ARTHUR 
MEEKER'S  DAIRY  FARM  ENTRANCE.  THIS 
CHURCH  HAD  A  NOTABLE  HISTORY,  FOR  OVER 
FIFTY  YEARS,  AS  THE  GATHERING  PLACE 
OF  FOUR  TOWNSHIPS — SHIELDS,  DEERFIELD, 
VERNON,  AND  LIBERTYVILLE.  IT  WAS 
BURNED  DOWN  IN  1908,  WHEN  THE  PARISH 
SITE  WAS  TRANSFERRED  TO  DEERFIELD. 
IN  1875,  FATHER  JAMES  J.  MCGOVERN, 
PARISH  PRIEST  OF  ST.  PATRICK'S,  BUILT  A 
DAUGHTER  CHURCH  IN  LAKE  FOREST  WHICH 
WAS  CALLED  ST.  MARY'S,  AND  WHILST  MINIS- 
TERING TO  BOTH  PARISHES  REMOVED  HIS 
RESIDENCE  TO  LAKE  FOREST.  THIS  CON- 
TINUED TO  BE  THE  PRACTICE  UNTIL  THE 
BURNING  OF  THE  OLD  CHURCH  IN  1908,  AND 
THE  FLITTING  OF  ST.  PATRICK  PARISH,  WHEN 
LAKE  FOREST  BECAME  AN  INDEPENDENT 
PARISH.  IN  IQIO  THE  ORIGINAL  ST.  MARY'S 
STRUCTURE  WAS  REPLACED  BY  THE  PRESENT 
FINE  BRICK  HOUSE  OF  WORSHIP  AT  A  COST 
OF  $50,000.  AS  IN  THE  CASE  OF  THE 
EARLIER  BUILDING  A  LARGE  PORTION  OF 


THE  COST  WAS  DEFRAYED  BY  PROTESTANTS 
OF  LAKE  FOREST,  AS  HAPPILY  MOST  HAR- 
MONIOUS RELATIONS  HAVE  ALWAYS  EXISTED 
HERE  BETWEEN  BOTH  CLERGY  AND  LAITY 
OF  THE  TWO  GREAT  TRADITIONAL  EXPRES- 
SIONS OF  RELIGIOUS  CONVICTION,  CATHOL- 
ICISM AND  PROTESTANTISM. 
THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  OF  LAKE 
FOREST  IS  IN  A  SUBURB  AND  TWENTY-EIGHT 
MILES  FROM  THE  HEART  OF  CHICAGO,  BUT 
NEVERTHELESS  IT  HAS  ALWAYS  BEEN  A 
METROPOLITAN  CHURCH.  THIS  IS  DUE  TO 
ITS  ESTABLISHMENT  IN  1859,  AND  MAIN- 
TENANCE EVER  SINCE,  BY  PROMINENT  CHI- 
CAGOANS  WHO  HAVE  LIVED  AND  VOTED  AND 
WORSHIPPED  IN  LAKE  FOREST,  BUT  HAVE 
CARRIED  ON  BUSINESS  IN  CHICAGO.  AFTER 
WORSHIPPING  IN  THE  ACADEMY  BUILDING 
FOR  THREE  YEARS,  A  CHURCH  WAS  BUILT  OX 
THE  PRESENT  SITE,  WHICH  WAS  REPLACED 
IN  1887  BY  THE  PRESENT  STONE  EDIFICE. 
THE  STONE  USED  IN  THIS  BUILDING  IS  A 
BITUMINOUS  LIMESTONE,  QUARRIED  NEAR 
THE  INTERSECTION  OF  CHICAGO  AVENUE  AND 
WESTERN  AVENUE,  AND  FROM  1851  TO  1871 
IT  FORMED  THE  ENCLOSING  WALLS  OF  THE 
FAMOUS  "SPOTTED  CHURCH" — THE  SECPND 
PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  OF  CHICAGO,  WHICH 
STOOD  ON  THE  NORTHEAST  CORNER  OF 
WABASH  AVENUE  AND  WASHINGTON  STREET, 
AND  WAS  WRECKED  IN  THE  "GREAT  FIRE." 


Old  Elm  Hub 


MANY  OP  ITS  PROMINENT  MEN  HAD  MIGRATED 
TO  LAKE  FOREST,  AND  IN  1887  THEY  DESIRED 
TO  REPRODUCE,  IF  POSSIBLE,  EVEN  IN  A 
PHYSICAL  WAY,  THE  ATMOSPHERE  OF  THEIR 
EARLIER  CHURCH  HOME.  SO  THE  STONE  WAS 
USED  IN  THE  NEWER  BUILDING,  THIRTY 
MILES  AWAY,  AND  DR.  ROBERT  W.  PATTER- 
SON, WHO  HAD  OCCUPIED  THE  EARLIER 
PULPIT  DURING  ALL  THE  YEARS  OF  ITS 
EXISTENCE,  PREACHED  THE  SERMON  OF 
DEDICATION  OF  THE  NEW  STRUCTURE  IN 
JUNE,  1887.  THE  PASTORS  OF  THIS  CHURCH 
HAVE  THROUGH  ALL  THE  YEARS  OF  A  HALF 
CENTURY  AND  MORE  BEEN  NOTABLE  MEN  IN 
THE  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,  AND  THEIR 
INFLUENCE  HAS  NOT  BEEN  CONFINED  TO 
LAKE  FOREST,  OR  EVEN  TO  CHICAGO,  BUT 
HAS  BEEN  RECOGNIZED  IN  EVERY  GRADE  OF 
THE  COUNCILS  OF  THEIR  CHURCH,  AND  FROM 
THE  ATLANTIC  TO  THE  PACIFIC.  DIFFERING 
IN  MANY  WAYS  IN  PERSONALITY,  IN  METHODS 
AND  IN  NATURAL  GIFTS,  THEY  HAVE  REAL- 
IZED THE  INFLUENTIAL  POSITION  OF  THE 
LAKE  FOREST  COMMUNITY,  AND  THEY  HAVE 
MOST  FORTUNATELY  COUNTED  CHRISTIAN 
EXPERIENCE  AND  CHRISTIAN  ACCOMPLISH- 
MENT AS  A  MORE  IMPORTANT  EVANGEL  THAN 
DOGMA  AND  THEOLOGICAL  DIALECTICS. 
THEREFORE  THE  CHURCH  HAS  HAD  A  WON- 
DERFUL HALF  CENTURY  OF  HARMONIOUS 
AND  HAPPY  PROGRESS,  UNRUFFLED  BY  ANY 
CONTROVERSIES,  AND  UNBROKEN  BY  ANY 
FACTIONS. 

THE  EPISCOPAL  "CHURCH  OF  THE  HOLY 
SPIRIT"  WAS  ESTABLISHED  IN  LAKE  FOREST 
IN  1898  BY  EPISCOPALIANS  WHO  HAD  HITHER- 
TO WORSHIPPED  WITH  THE  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCH  PEOPLE,  CORDIALLY  AND  HAPPILY. 
SERVICES  WERE  HELD  IN  TEMPORARY  QUAR- 
TERS UNTIL  IQO2,  WHEN  THE  BEAUTIFUL 
LITTLE  CHURCH  EDIFICE  WAS  BUILT  AND 
OCCUPIED.  THE  FOUR  SUCCESSIVE  RECTORS 
OF  THIS  CHURCH  HAVE  BEEN  MEN  OF  A 
BROAD  INCLUSION  AND  SYMPATHY,  AND  EACH 
ONE  OF  THEM  HAS,  IN  TURN,  SHARED  WITH 
THE  PRESBYTERIAN  PASTORS  IN  ACTING  AS 
OCCASIONAL  AND  UNOFFICIAL  "  CHAPLAINS" 
AT  THE  COLLEGE  CHAPEL  EXERCISES,  WITH 


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SATISFACTION  TO  THE  REPRESENTATIVES  OF 
THE  NINE  OR  TEN  DENOMINATIONS  GATHERED 
THERE  DAILY.  THE  COSMOPOLITANISM  OF 
LAKE  FOREST  HAS,  IN  NO  OTHER  FORM  OF 
EXPRESSION,  BEEN  MORE  STRIKINGLY  MANI^ 
FESTED,  THAN  IN  THE  SUBORDINATION,  IN 
BOTH  TOWN  AND  COLLEGE,  OF  DENOMINA- 
TIONALISM  TO  A  BROAD  AND  GENEROUS,  BUT 
VITAL  CHRISTIANITY. 

ONE  OF  THE  MOST  IMPORTANT  FEATURES  OF 
LAKE  FOREST,  SOCIALLY,  IS  THE  ONWENTSIA 
GOLF  CLUB.  IT  WAS  ORGANIZED  IN  NOVEM- 
BER, 1894,  THROUGH  THE  INSTRUMENTALITY 
OF  MR.  HOBART  C.  CHATFIELD-TAYLOR  AND 
MR.  CHARLES  F.  SMITH,  AND  THE  FIRST 
"LINKS"  WERE  EXTEMPORIZED  ON  THE 
LAKE  PARK  AND  THE  GROUNDS  OF  MR.  C.  B. 
FARWELL.  IN  MARCH,  1895,  THE  CLUB 
BOUGHT  THE  EXTENSIVE  GROUNDS  OF  MR. 
HENRY  IVES  COBB  ON  THE  GREENBAY  ROAD, 
AND  MADE  THE  HOME  THE  CLUB  HOUSE. 
HERE,  ON  TWO  HUNDRED  ACRES  OF  LAND,  IS 
ONE  OF  THE  FINEST  LINKS  IN  THE  COUNTRY. 
AMONG  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THIS  CLUB  ARE 
MOST  OF  THE  MEN  AND  WOMEN  WHO  ARE 
PROMINENT  IN  THE  SOCIAL  AND  BUSINESS 
LIFE  OF  CHICAGO,  FOR  IT  IS  A  COMMON  THING 
TO  HOLD  MEMBERSHIP  IN  "  ONWENTSIA" 
TOGETHER  WITH  MEMBERSHIP  IN  SOME 
OTHER  GOLF  CLUB  OF  THIS  VICINITY.  BUT 
THE  VERY  POPULARITY  OF  THE  CLUB  OVER- 


Winter 


CROWDED  ITS  LINKS  TO  SUCH  A  DEGREE  THAT 
VERY  BUSY  MEMBERS  FOUND  IT  DIFFICULT 
MANY  TIMES  TO  GET  ELBOW  ROOM  IN  A 
LIMITED  HALF  HOLIDAY  AMID  THE  THRONG 

OF     PATRONS MEN,     WOMEN,     AND     YOUTHS. 

SO  IN  1913  l6o  ACRES  OF  LAND  WERE  BOUGHT 
BY  A  GROUP  OF  ONWENTSIA  MEN  LESS  THAN 
HALF  A  MILE  TO  THE  WESTWARD  FROM  FORT 
SHERIDAN  RAILWAY  STATION.  TAKING  A 
NAME  FROM  A  GRAND  OLD  ELM  AT  THE 

ENTRANCE WHICH     MATCHES     ONWENTSIA's 

GREAT  COTTONWOOD,  THE  OLD  ELM  GOLF 
CLUB  WAS  ORGANIZED  FOR  MEN  ONLY,  WITH 
SPORT  FOR  RECREATION  THE  SOLE  FEATURE. 
THE  PROJECT  ORIGINATED  WITH  MR.  R.  H. 
MCELWEE,  AND  AMONG  THE  ORIGINAL  FIFTY 
CHARTER  MEMBERS  ASSOCIATED  WITH  HIM 
WERE  ALFRED  L.  BAKER,  CLYDE  M.  CARR, 
JOHN  V.  FARWELL,  STANLEY  FIELD,  A.  A. 
SPRAGUE,  AND  JAMES  VILES.  THE  MEMBER- 
SHIP IS  RESTRICTED  TO  ONE  HUNDRED  AND 
FIFTY. 

THE  WINTER  CLUB  OF  LAKE  FOREST  WAS 
ORGANIZED  IN  JULY,  IQO2,  AND  ITS  CHARTER 
MEMBERS  WERE  EDWARD  SAMUEL,  SIDNEY  R. 
TABER,  EDWARD  F.  GORTON,  MARK  MORTON, 
THOMAS  S.  FAUNTLEROY,  MARVIN  HUGHITT, 
EZRA  J.  WARNER,  GEORGE  H.  HOLT,  AND 
HIRAM  R.  MCCULLOUGH.  IN  1903  THE  CLUB 
TOOK  POSSESSION  OF  ITS  ATTRACTIVE  CLUB 
HOUSE  ON  THE  SHERIDAN  ROAD,  AND  IT 
HAS  FROM  THAT  TIME  BEEN  A  CENTER  OF 
SOCIAL  AMUSEMENT  AND  WINTER  SPORTS. 
THE  STEAM  RAILWAY  CAME  EVEN  BEFORE 
LAKE  FOREST,  IN  JANUARY,  1855.  THE 
ELECTRIC  RAILWAY  SERVICE  BEGAN  IN 
JULY,  1896.  TELEPHONE  SERVICE  BEGAN 
IN  1892,  AND  ELECTRIC  LIGHTING,  IN  THE 
HOMES,  IN  JULY,  1896.  GAS  WAS  INTRO- 
DUCED, BY  ORDINANCE,  IN  SEPTEMBER, 
I9OO.  THE  LAKE  FOREST  WATER  COMPANY 
WAS  ORGANIZED  IN  1890,  AND  BEGAN  SER- 
VICE THAT  YEAR.  IN  JULY,  1898,  A  PUBLIC 
LIBRARY  WAS  ESTABLISHED  IN  THE  NEW 
CITY  HALL,  WHICH  WAS  OCCUPIED  AT  THE 
SAME  TIME.  LAKE  FOREST  IS  PROUD  OF 
ITS  VOLUNTEER  FIRE  SERVICE,  FURNISHED 
BY  A  NUMBER  OF  ITS  BEST  BUSINESS  MEN. 


FOR  TWENTY  YEARS, 
LED  BY  FIRE  MARSHAL 

WILLIAM  j.  O'NEILL,  A 

DOZEN  OR  MORE  OF 
THE  MOST  RESPON- 
SIBLE MEN  ON  "THE 
BUSINESS  FRONT"  AND 
DEERPATH  HAVE  LED 
THEIR  JUNIORS,  AND 
AT  ANY  HOUR  OF  DAY 
OR  NIGHT  SACED  TO 
THE  HOSE  HOUSE,  AND 
CARED  FOR  A  MOST 
EXTENSIVE  FIRE  DIS- 
TRICT. 

THAT  NECESSARY  CON- 
VENIENCE OF  MODERN 
LIFE,  THE  BANK,  CAME 
IN  1903,  WHEN  THE 
STATE  BANK  OF  LAKE 
FOREST  OPENED  FOR 
BUSINESS,  DECEMBER 
14,  ON  "THE  CORNER." 
IT  WAS  SOON  FOL- 
LOWED BY  THE  FIRST 
NATIONAL  BANK  OF 
LAKE  FOREST,  WHICH 

BEGAN  BUSINESS  OCTOBER  31,  1907.  IN 
1915,  THESE  TWO  BANKS  WERE  ASSOCIATED 
UNDER  ONE  DIRECTORATE,  THE  OLDER 
INSTITUTION  TO  CONTINUE  TO  CONDUCT  THE 
"SAVINGS"  BUSINESS  OF  THE  COMBINATION, 
AND  THE  NATIONAL  TO  CARRY  ON  THE  LOAN 
AND  DISCOUNT  SIDE.  EARLY  IN,  1916  THE 
CONSOLIDATED  BANK  TOOK  POSSESSION  OF 
ITS  COMMODIOUS  QUARTERS  IN  THE  NEW 
"BANK  BUILDING,"  WHICH  FORMS  THE  WEST- 
ERN SIDE  OF  THE  SQUARE  IN  THE  NEW 
BUSINESS  CENTER.  IN  NOVEMBER,  1916,  A 
NEW  STATE  BANK  WAS  OPENED  ON  THE 
CORNER  UNDER  THE  DESIGNATION  OF  THE 
LAKE  FOREST  TRUST  AND  SAVINGS  BANK. 
THE  PIONEER  PERIOD  FOR  LAKE  FOREST 
PRECEDED  THE  CHICAGO  FIRE,  AND  FOR  THE 
NEXT  TWENTY  YEARS  ONLY  A  FEW  STATELY 

HOMES       WERE       BUILT FOUR       OR      FIVE      IN 

EACH  DECADE.  MR.  AND  MRS.  SIMON  S. 
REID  OPENED  "THE  LILACS"  IN  1872;  MR. 


A  Vista  on 
"Walden" 


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AND  MRS.  EZRA  J.  WARNER  CAME  TO  "  OAK- 
HURST  "  IN  1873;  MR.  AND  MRS.  WILLIAM 
HENRY  SMITH  BUILT  THEIR  FIRST  LAKE 
FOREST  HOME  ON  THE  LAKE  FRONT  IN  1875, 
WHERE  MR.  AND  MRS.  JOSEPH  D.  HUBBARD 
NOW  LIVE;  A-ND  MR.  AND  MRS.  CALVIN 
DURAND  OPENED  " MERRIE  MEAD"  IN  THE 
SAME  YEAR.  MR.  AND  MRS.  CORNELIUS  M. 
TROWBRIDGE  NOW  HAVE  THIS  HOME  OF  MRS. 
TROWBRIDGE'S  CHILDHOOD.  UP  TO  1880 
ONLY  THE  KAYS  AND  KIRKS  HAD  BUILT 
SOMEWHAT  REMOTE  FROM  THE  RAILWAY 
STATION,  AND  ALSO  HAD  DISCOVERED  THE 
CHARM  OF  A  RESIDENCE  SITE  IMMEDIATELY 
ON  THE  EDGE  OF  THE  BLUFFS  ABOVE  THE 
LAKE.  IN  THE  NEXT  TEN  YEARS  THREE 
BEAUTIFUL  PLACES  SOUGHT  THIS  LOCATION. 
IN  l88o  MR.  AND  MRS.  ABRAM  POOLE  BUILT 
"ELSINORE"  ON  THE  FORMER  KAY  SITE; 

IN     l88l     MR.     AND    MRS.     WALTER    C.     LARNED 

WENT  FAR  TO  THE  SOUTH  AND  ESTABLISHED 
NOTABLE  "BLAIR  LODGE;"  IN  1882  MR. 
EBENEZER  BUCKINGHAM  BUILT  A  SUMMER 
HOME  ON  THE  PRESENT  CLAYTON  MARK  SITE. 
IN  1887  CAPTAIN  AND  MRS.  I.  P.  RUMSEY 
TOOK  THE  OLD  QUINLAN  PLACE  BUILT  IN  1863 
AS  "THE  EVERGREENS,"  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
EDWARD  F.  CHAPIN  BUILT  THE  HOME  WHICH 
is  NOW  THE  "SHADOWLAWN"  OF  MR.  AND 
MRS.  C.  F.  CHILDS.  THE  NEXT  YEAR  MR. 
AND  MRS.  AMZI  BENEDICT  BUILT  THE  CROSBY 
HOME,  "THE  CROSSWAYS." 

1890  ANOTHER  CHARMING  DISCOVERY 
WAS  MADE.  _THE  GREENBAY,  JROAT)  HAD 
BECOME  A  GR"EAT  THOROUGHFARE  IN  1834, 
BUT  FOR  MANY  YEARS,  LAKE  FOREST  KNEW 
IT  MERELY  ASJ3TJT  IN  THE  COUNTRY.  AJIPJlS.. 
GIVING  ACCESS  TO  THE  GREAT  FARMS  — 
'  ;  ATTERIDGE,  CONDELL,  MCINTYRE,  GOODBODY,  " 
BURKE,  DULANTY,  AND  SWANTON.  MR.  ' 
HENRY  IVES  COBB  WAS  THE  FIRST  ONE  TO 
DISCOVER  THE  GRAND  VIEW  AND  THE  BEAU- 
TIFUL VISTAS  ACROSS  AND  ALONG  "THE 
SKOKIE,"  AND  THE  ENCHANTMENT  OF  MOON- 
LIGHT AND  MIST  OVER  ITS  LOWLANDS.  IN 
1890  HE  BUILT  THE  GREATEST  HOUSE  YET 
IN  SHIELDS  TOWNSHIP — SO  SOON  TO  BECOME 
THE  HOME  OF  "ONWENTSIA."  MR.  WILLIAM 


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HENRY  SMITH 
CAME  NEXT  AND 
BUILT  "LOST  ROCK" 

IN  1894 — A  DE- 
LIGHTFUL SPECI- 
MEN OF  VIRGINIA 
"COLONIA  L," 
WHICH  HIS  LA- 
MENTED DEATH 
IN  1896  WAS  TO 
TRANSFER  TO  HIS 
SON  MR.  DELAVAN 
SMITH.  IN  1895 

MR.  AND  MRS. 
DAVID  B.  JONES 
OPENED  "PEM- 
BROKE HALL." 

TWO  YEARS  LATER  I 
THE  BEAUTIES  OF 
THE  SKOKIE  HIGH- 
ER UP  WERE  RE- 
VEALED, AND  AS 
THE  NEARER 
ATTERIDGE  AND 
SWANTON  FARMS 
WERE  NOT  ON  THE 
MARKET,  MR.  AND 
MRS.  HOWARD  V.  SHAW  WENT  TO  ARTISTIC 

"RAGDALE"  IN  1897,  DR.  AND  MRS.  w.  E. 
CASSELBERRY  TO  "THE  BOULDERS"  IN  1898, 
DR.  AND  MRS.  N.  L.  DAVIS  BUILT  THE  PRES- 
ENT HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  E.  F.  CARRY  IN 
THE  SAME  YEAR,  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN 
DORR  BRADLEY  CLOSED  THE  SERIES  IN  THAT 
QUARTER  IN  1900. 

SECOND  ONLY  TO  THE  SKOKIE  WATERSHED, 
IN  OPEN  VISION,  WAS  THE  STRETCH  OF  LAND 
ALONG  TO  THE  EASTWARD  OF  THE  GREEN- 
BAY  ROAD,  AND  IT  WAS  PRETTY  WELL  TAKEN 
UP  IN  THE  SAME  TEN  YEARS.  ABOUT  THE 

SAME  TIME IN  1892 — MR.  AND  MRS.  VERNON 

BOOTH  BUILT  AT  ITS  SOUTHERN  END,  ABOVE 
HELM'S  CROSSING,  AND  AWAY  TO  THE  NORTH 
MR.  AND  MRS.  WILLIAM  H.  HUBBARD  PLACED 
"STONYWOOD"  ON  THE  ORIGINAL  "CEME- 
TERY KNOLL"  OF  PRIMAEVAL  DAYS.  TO  THE 
NORTH  IN  1898,  THE  DISTINGUISHED  PHYSI- 
CIAN, JOHN  WILLIAMS  STREETER,  ON  A  LITTLE 


" The  Sun  Vow"  on  the 
Shaw  Estate 


ESTATE  OF  THIRTY  ACRES,  LAID  OUT  THE 
NOW  IMMORTAL  "  UPPERCROSS  FARM," 
WHERE  HE  WROTE  "THE  FAT  OF  THE  LAND," 
AND  BECAME  AN  UNINTENTIONAL  AUTHORITY 
ON  FARMING.  IN  THE  SAME  YEAR  MR.  AND 
MRS.  FREDRIK  HERMAN  GADE  BEGAN  TO 
REPRODUCE,  OVER  AGAINST  THE  ONWENTSIA 
GROUNDS,  THE  ANCESTRAL  HOSPITALITIES 
OF  NORSE  "FROGNER,"  WHILST  MR.  AND 
MRS.  ARTHUR  B1SSELL  WERE  OPENING 
"THORN WOOD"  NEAR  BY,  NOW  THE  HOME  OF 
MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  BROWN,  AND  MR. 
AND  MRS.  RICHARD  M.  BISSELL  BUILT  THE 
PRESENT  HOME  OF  THE  BEVANS. 
OVER  ON  THE  BLUFFS  NEARLY  ALL  THE 
AVAILABLE  SITUATIONS  WERE  OCCUPIED  IN 
THIS  DECADE.  MR.  AND  MRS.  W.  R.  STIRLING 
AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  H.  HAMLINE  BUILT 
IN  1892;  MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  S.  HANNAH  IN 
1893.  IN  1884  MR.  AND  MRS.  BYRON  L. 
SMITH  CAME  TO  "  BRIAR  HALL"  WITH  ITS 
WEALTH  OF  FOLIAGE.  IN  1896  MR.  AND  MRS. 
AMBROSE  CRAMER  OCCUPIED  "  RATHMORE;  " 
MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  V.  FARWELL,  "  ARD- 
LEIGH;"  MR.  AND  MRS.  FRANCIS  c.  FARWELL, 
"EDGEWOOD;"  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  CYRUS  H. 
MCCORMICK,  "  WALDEN."  MR.  AND  MRS. 
ALFRED  L.  BAKER  CAME  TO  "LITTLE  OR- 
CHARD" IN  1898.  MOREOVER,  BETWEEN 
THE  BLUFFS  AND  THE  GREENBAY  ROAD 
ABOUT  A  DOZEN  FINE  HOUSES  HAD  BEEN 
BUILT  IN  THE  SAME  TEN  YEARS.  MR.  AND 
MRS.  LEVI  W.  YAGGY  BUILT  "WYMSCOTE" — 

THE    PRESENT     LINDLEY     HOME IN     1890; 

MR.  AND  MRS.  HENRY  N.  TUTTLE  BUILT  IN 
1891;  MR.  AND  MRS.  GRANGER  FARWELL 
OPENED  THEIR  FIRST  "KNOLLWOOD,"  NEAR 
THE  COLLEGE,  IN  1892;  MR.  AND  MRS. 
FREDERICK  C.  ALDRICH  MADE  "THE  NOOK;" 
AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  JESSE  L.  MOSS  CAME  TO 
"  MEADOWCROFT"  IN  THE  SAME  YEAR.  MR. 
AND  MRS.  ROBERT  G.  MCGANN'S  PRESENT 
HOUSE,  AND  THE  HOSPITABLE  "iNSLEY"  OF 
MR.  AND  MRS.  CARTER  H.  FITZHUGH  WERE 
BUILT  IN  1893;  AND  IN  1894  MR.  AND  MRS. 
T.  S.  FAUNTLEROY  BUILT  "PARKHURST," 
THE  MORTON  HOME  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
EDWARD  S.  GORTON  BUILT  THE  HEYWORTH 


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HOME.  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  S.  FROST 
ESTABLISHED  THEIR  HOME  IN  1897,  AND 
MR.  AND  MRS.  HIRAM  R.  MCCULLOUGH  THEIRS 
IN  1898.  IN  THE  LATTER  YEAR,  ALSO,  MR. 
AND  MRS.  ALFRED  H.  GRANGER  BUILT 
"  WOODLEIGH"— THE  THIRD  IN  THAT  FAMILY 
GROUP  OF  HOMES,  AND  NOW  OCCUPIED  BY 
MR.  MARVIN  HUGHITT,  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
FRANKLIN  P.  SMITH  BUILT  ON  HER  FATHER'S 
OLD  ESTATE. 

THE  TEN  YEARS  FROM  1900  THROUGH  1909 
WAS  AN  ACTIVE  BUILDING  PERIOD,  AND 
NEARLY  THIRTY  NEW  HOMES  WERE  ESTAB- 
LISHED. LAKE  FOREST  HAD  NOW  BECOME 
FAMOUS  AS  AN  IDEAL  LOCATION  FOR  HOMES 
OF  CHICAGO  BUSINESS  MEN.  THE  DOUBLE 
TRACKING  OF  THE  NORTHWESTERN  AS  FAR 
AS  LAKE  BLUFF,  WHICH  WAS  ACCOMPLISHED 
IN  1891,  AND  THE  SPEEDING  UP  OF  SCHED- 
ULES, LED  TO  THE  BUSINESS  MEN'S  FORTY- 
FIVE  MINUTES  TRAIN — IN  AT  8  A.M.  AND  OUT 
FROM  CHICAGO  AT  5:10  P.M.  THE  AUTO- 
MOBILE, ALSO,  HAD  BECOME  A  SUCCESS 
BEFORE  1900,  AND  IT  BECAME  EASY  TO  LIVE 
SEVERAL  MILES  FROM  THE  LAKE  FOREST 
STATION  AND  GO  DAILY  TO  BUSINESS  IN 
CHICAGO.  CURIOUSLY,  HOWEVER,  IT  WAS 
A  WOMAN,  AND  ONE  OF  LEISURE,  WHO  DIS- 
COVERED THE  ATTRACTIONS  OF  THE  "SECOND 
SKOKIE"  BEYOND  THE  "TELEGRAPH"  ROAD 

THE  OLDER  CORDUROY  ROAD AND  BUILT 

THE  FIRST  HOME  OUT  THERE  AMONG  THE 
STEEL  AND  VICKERMAN  AND  CONNELL  FARMS. 
MISS  HELEN  CULVER  BUILT  "ROOKWOODS" 
THERE  IN  1900.  IN  1904  THE  GOODES 
BUILT  TO  THE  NORTH  OF  "ROOKWOODS"  THE 
PRESENT  HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  C.  H. 
ACKERT.  IN  1906  MR.  AND  MRS.  ARTHUR 
MEEKER  FOLLOWED  AND  THE  NOTABLE 
DAIRY  FARM  OF  "ARCADY"  BEGAN.  IN 
1907  THE  J.  OGDEN  ARMOUR  MANSION  OF 
"MELLODY  FARM"  ON  THE  WESTERN  SLOPE 
OF  THE  SECOND  SKOKIE  WAS  THROWN  OPEN. 
THIS  MAGNIFICENT  ESTATE  OF  IOOO  ACRES 
EMPLOYS  A  LITTLE  ARMY  OF  MECHANICIANS, 
GARDENERS,  AND  CARETAKERS.  AS  IN  THE 
CASE  OF  THE  GREEN  BAY  ROAD,  THE  DEVEL- 
OPMENT OF  THE  WESTERN  SIDE  OF  THE 


TELEGRAPH  ROAD  DREW  PURCHASERS  TO  THE 
EQUALLY  FINE  LANDS  ON  THE  EASTERN 
SLOPE  FACING  THE  MAIN  SKOKIE.  IN  IQOI 
MR.  AND  MRS.  GEORGE  A.  MCKINLOCK  BUILT 
AT  THE  INTERSECTION  OF  DEERPATH,  AND 
MR.  AND  MRS.  A.  B.  DICK  IN  1903  "  WEST- 
MORELAND. "  A  LITTLE  LATER  THE  GREENS 
BUILT  NEAR  THE  CORDUROY  BRIDGE  THE 
HOUSE  THAT  WAS  AFTERWARD  THE  HOME 
OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  H.  EWING  AND  NOW 
OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  EDWARD  I.  CUDAHY;  STILL 
SEARCHING  FOR  INVITING  SITES  MR.  AND 
MRS.  CHARLES  GARFIELD  KING  DISCOVERED 
THE  UPPER  REACH  OF  A  HITHERTO  ALMOST 
UNEXPLORED  REGION,  BUT  ONE  FULL  OF 
DELIGHTFUL  POSSIBILITIES  ALL  THE  WAY 
TO  THE  HIGHWOOD  LATITUDE,  AND  IN 
1906  PLACED  A  PIONEER  MANSION  ON  THE 
INTERMEDIATE  OR  "RIDGE"  ROAD.  MR. 
AND  MRS.  JAMES  W.  THORNE  FOLLOWED 
THEM  HERE  IN  IQI2. 

IN  1900  MR.  AND  MRS.  LOUIS  F.  SWIFT 
OPENED  THE  FIRST  COMBINATION  OF  COLO- 
NIAL MANSION  AND  FARM  AT  "  WESTLEIGH." 
IN  THE  SAME  YEAR  MR.  AND  MRS.  VILES  RE- 
CONSTRUCTED "WILLOW  BEND."  MR.  AND 
MRS.  ARTHUR  ALOIS  BEGAN  IN  1901  A  HOME 
THAT  HAS  BECOME  A  GREAT  COMMUNITY 
CENTER.  THE  "PLAY  HOUSE,"  ON  THEIR 
GROUNDS,  HAS  CREATED  BOTH  PLAYS  AND 
PLAYERS,  AND  HAS  BECOME  NOTABLE  IN  THE 
DRAMATIC  DEVELOPMENT  IN  AND  AROUND 
CHICAGO.  MR.  AND  MRS.  HARRY  C.  DURAND 
BUILT  IN  1903.  MR.  AND  MRS.  ARTHUR  L. 
FAR  WELL  BUILT  IN  1904,  AND  HAD  ALREADY 
"DOMESTICATED"  THE  FIRST  AUTOMOBILE 
IN  LAKE  FOREST,  TO  THE  CONSTERNATION 
OF  RURAL  CONSERVATORS,  WHO  SOLEMNLY 
THREATENED  TO  HAVE  THE  TERRIBLE  EN- 
GINE PRECEDED  BY  A  TOWN  CRIER  TO  CLEAR 
THE  WAY.  IN  1905  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES 

D.  NORTON     OPENED     "ROADSIDE,"     SINCE 
1910   THE    HOME    OF    MR.    AND    MRS.    PHILIP 
L.  JAMES.      IN  THE  SAME  YEAR  MR.  AND  MRS. 

E.  A.    RUSSELL    OCCUPIED    THE    HOUSE    ON 
SHERIDAN  ROAD  BUILT  BY  MR.  FAUNTLEROY 
TWO    YEARS    BEFORE;    THE    MISSES    COLVIN, 
"HALCYON    LODGE"    UP    NORTH;    AND     MR. 


AND  MRS.  JOHN  T.  PIRIE  BUILT  TO  THE 
SOUTH;  MR.  AND  MRS.  SLASON  THOMPSON 
LOCATED  AT  "THE  SEVEN  CEDARS"  FURTHER 
SOUTH;  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  s.  T.  CHASE  WENT 
OVER  ON  THE  SWANTON  FARM,  WHERE  MR. 
AND  MRS.  R.  E.  STURTEVANT  NOW  HAVE 
THEIR  HOME.  IN  IQOO  THE  WILLINGS  BUILT 
THE  PRESENT  DANGLER  HOME;  MR.  AND  MRS. 
ERNEST  HAMILL  OCCUPIED  "  B  A  L  L  Y  A  T- 
WOOD"  TO  THE  SOUTH;  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
A.  A.  CARPENTER  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  LOUIS 
E.  LAFLIN  PLACED  THEIR  FRIENDLY  HOMES, 
THE  LATTER  CALLED  "ELLSLOYD,"  ON  A 
CONTINUOUS  STRETCH  OF  LAWN.  IN  IQOy 
MR.  AND  MRS.  WALTER  S.  BREWSTER  PLANTED 
THE  "COVIN  TREE"  ON  A  PORTION  OF  THE 
ATTERIDGE  FARM,  AND  FURTHER  NORTH  WENT 
MR.  AND  MRS.  GEORGE  D.  MCLAUGHLIN  AND 
MR.  AND  MRS.  FREDERICK  MCLAUGHLIN;  MR. 
AND  MRS.  A.  A.  SPRAGUE  PLACED  NEAR  THE 
CARPENTERS  AND  LAFLINS  THE  PRESENT 
HOME  OF  THE  BYRON  S.  HARVEYS;  MR.  AND 
MRS.  LEVERETT  THOMPSON  BUILT  ACROSS 
FROM  THE  OLD  POOLE  MANSION;  MR.  AND 
MRS.  EDWARD  L.  RYERSON  BUILT  THEIR  FIRST 
LAKE  FOREST  HOUSE,  NOW  THE  HOME  OF 
THE  REUBEN  H.  DONNELLEYSJ  MRS.  P.  L. 
UNDERWOOD  CAME  OPPOSITE  THE  LITTLE 
PARK;  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  ALBERT  M.  DAY 
BUILT  AT  THE  FOOT  OF  ILLINOIS  AVENUE. 
THIS  YEAR  ALSO  MR.  AND  MRS.  MARK  CUM- 
MINGS  MADE  OF  THE  HANNAH  PLACE  "lOKA." 
IN  1908  THE  MISSES  DRUMMOND  AND  MR. 
AND  MRS.  EZRA  J.  WARNER,  JR.,  BUILT  AT 
THE  CENTRE,  MR.  AND  MRS.  PRENTISS  L. 
COONLEY  OVER  NEAR  THE  SKOKIE,  AND  MR. 
AND  MRS.  C.  I.  DANGLER  TOOK  THE  WILLING 
PLACE.  IN  1909  MR.  AND  MRS.  CLIFFORD 
W.  BARNES  BUILT  "GLEN  ROWAN,"  MR.  AND 
MRS.  ARTHUR  D.  WHEELER,  "THALFRIED," 
MR.  AND  MRS.  WILLIAM  MATHER  LEWIS 
"MEADESIDE,"  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  HAROLD  F. 
MCCORMICK  BUILT  A  STATELY  ITALIAN  VILLA 
ON  THE  LAKE  BLUFF. 

MORE  THAN  TWENTY  HOMES  HAVE  BEEN 
ADDED  IN  THE  LAST  SEVEN  YEARS.  IN 
I9IO  MR.  AND  MRS.  HUGH  MCBIRNEY  JOHN- 
STON BUILT  ON  THE  GREENBAY  ROAD;  MR. 


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AND  MRS.  HUGH  J.  MCBIRNEY  JUST  WEST  OF 
THEM;  AND  FOUR  MILES  NORTH  OF  THEM, 
AT  FIVE  POINTS,  MR.  AND  MRS.  R.  W.  LEATH- 
ERBEE  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  S. 
DEWEY  BUILT  THEIR  COTTAGES,  THAT  OF 
THE  LATTER  TO  BE  REPLACED  IN  IQI5  BY 
THE  GREAT  "  OVERYONDER."  THE  SAME  YEAR 
MR.  AND  MRS.  RUSSELL  D.  HILL  COMPLETED 
THEIR  HOME.  IN  IQII  A  GROUP  WAS  PLACED 

ON   THE   ATTERIDGE   FARM "CLINOLA"    BY 

MR.  AND  MRS.  T.  E.  DONNELLEY,  THE  HOME 
OF  MR.  AND  MRS.  FRANK  C.  LETTS  BY  THE 
PAXTONS,  AND  THE  NORMAN  SCOTTS  BUILT 
THE  PRESENT  HOME  OF  MR.  AND  MRS. 
I.  N.  PERRY,  NORTH  OF  THE  DONNELLEY 
PLACE.  IN  THE  SAME  YEAR  MR.  AND  MRS. 
HENRY  A.  RUMSEY  OCCUPIED  TO  THE  SOUTH, 
MISS  MADELEINE  NEWELL  TOOK  POSSESSION 
OF  "  LITTLECOTE,"  AND  GENERAL  AND  MRS. 
HARDIN  BUILT  ON  THE  GREENBAY  ROAD, 
WHILE  MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  A.  CHAPMAN 
BUILT  WHERE  THIS  ROAD  ENTERS  DEERFIELD. 
IN  IQI2  MR.  AND  MRS.  D.  R.  MCLENNAN  RE- 
BUILT ON  THE  OLD  KIRK  PLACE,  MR.  AND 
MRS.  ARTHUR  YAGGY  MADE  A  NEWER 
"WYMSCOTE,"  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  EDWARD 
S.  MOORE  REPLACED  UPPERCROSS  FARM  COT- 
TAGE BY  A  GRAND  MANSION.  IN  IQI3  MR. 
AND  MRS.  EDWARD  L.  HASLER  BUILT  ON  THE 
GREENBAY  ROAD,  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  ALFRED 
HAMILL  IN  THE  SOUTHERN  REGION.  IN 
1914  MR.  AND  MRS.  CLAYTON  MARK  BUILT 
THEIR  SECOND  HOME,  AND  MR.  AND  MRS. 
GRANGER  FARWELL  THEIR  SECOND  "KNOLL- 
WOOD,"  OUT  ON  THE  FARM,  AND  IN  THE  NORTH 
WOODS  MR.  AND  MRS.  STANLEY  FIELD,  MR. 
AND  MRS.  HARRY  B.  CLOW,  AND  MR.  AND 
MRS.  A.  A.  SPRAGUE  AT  "  WOODLANDS" 
MADE  THREE  BEAUTIFUL  ESTATES.  IN  THE 
SAME  YEAR  MR.  AND  MRS.  RALPH  POOLE 
BUILT  WEST  AND  NORTH  OF  LAKE  BLUFF, 
AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  WALTER  KIRK  AND  MR. 
AND  MRS.  EDWARD  L.  RYERSON  IN  THE  FINE 
SOUTH  WOODS,  THE  LATTER  AT  "HAVEN- 
WOOD."  IN  IQIS  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES 
H.  SCHWEPPE  OCCUPIED  THEIR  HOME  ON  THE 
EARLIER  LARNED  PLACE;  AND  IN  THE  PRES- 
ENT YEAR  MR.  AND  MRS.  CHARLES  B.  FRENCH 


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HAVE  FINISHED  A  GREAT  MANSION  A  LITTLE 
FARTHER  SOUTH;  MRS.  CYRUS  H.  MCCORMICK, 
SENIOR,  HAS  NOW  OCCUPIED  ANOTHER  IN 
THE  SAME  WOODLAND  REGION;  AND  MR.  AND 
MRS.  WILLIAM  V.  KELLEY  WILL  SOON  OCCUPY 
A  BEAUTIFUL  PLACE  ON  GREENBAY  ROAD. 
THE  YEAR  IQl6  HAS  SEEN  THE  ERECTION, 
ALSO,  OF  THE  HOMES  OF  MR.  AND  MRS. 
SOLOMON  S.  SMITH,  NEAR  "BRIAR  HALL," 
MR.  AND  MRS.  HAROLD  BRYANT  WEST  OF 
ONWENTSIA,  MR.  AND  MRS.  THEODORE  POM- 
EROY  AND  MR.  AND  MRS.  W.  C.  NIBLACK 
NORTH  OF  THE  BRYANTS,  MR.  AND  MRS.  J.  M. 
CUDAHY  ON  DEERPATH  AVENUE,  DR.  AND 
MRS.  S.  J.  WALKER  ON  THE  TELEGRAPH  ROAD, 
AND  HALF  A  DOZEN  NEW  PLACES  ARE  TO  BE 
STARTED  IN  THE  NEW  YEAR.  MR.  AND  MRS. 
CLYDE  M.  CARR,  WHO  FOR  TEN  YEARS  HAVE 
OCCUPIED  MRS.  CRAMER'S  HOUSE  ON  MAY- 
FLOWER AVENUE  ARE  NOW  BUILDING  A 
LITTLE  FARTHER  SOUTH. 

THE  BUSINESS  CENTRE  OF  LAKE  FOREST, 
WHICH  IS  ALSO  THE  RAILROAD  GATEWAY, 
HAS  NEVER  BEEN  WORTHY  OF  THE  PLACE. 
FROM  THE  EARLIEST  DAYS,  WHEN  SPORADIC 
"STORES"  WERE  SET  UP  ON  STILTS,  EACH  ON 
ITS  OWN  LEVEL  ABOVE  THE  STREET,  DOWN 
TO  1815,  NOTHING  ADEQUATE  WAS  DONE. 
HALF  A  DOZEN  GOOD  BUILDINGS  HAD  BEEN 
ERECTED,  BUT  EACH  WITH  NO  REFERENCE 
TO  THE  OTHERS  LINE,  SO  THAT  THE  GENERAL 
EFFECT  STILL  WAS  MOST  UNATTRACTIVE  AND 
INARTISTIC.  IN  THE  OPENING  DAYS  OF 
IQl6  A  CONCERTED  PLAN  WAS  REALIZED, 
AND  WORK  WAS  BEGUN  ON  A  "CIVIC  CENTER  " 


The  Armour  Bridge 


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FOR  BUSINESS  WHICH  SHOULD  PROVIDE  A 
CENTRAL  SUGGESTION  AND  IDEAL  FITTING 
FOR  THE  HEART  OF  THE  "CITY  BEAUTIFUL." 

so  "THE   MARKET  SQUARE"  HAS  EMERGED, 

AND  GIVES  TO  THE  ARRIVING  STRANGER,  AS 
HIS  FIRST  IMPRESSION  OF  THE  LITTLE  CITY, 
ONE  THAT  CONSORTS  HAPPILY  WITH  THE 
MANY  BEAUTIFUL  RESIDENCES  WHICH  ARE 
STILL  TO  OPEN  UPON  HIS  VIEW.  THE  BUSI- 
NESS MEN  OF  THE  PLACE  HAVE  CO-OPERATED 
WITH  THE  PROMOTERS  OF  THIS  IMPROVE- 
MENT, AND  ARE  ENTERING  UPON  A  NEW  CON- 
CEPTION OF  COMMUNITY  CO-OPERATION.  A 

"MERCHANTS'     ASSOCIATION"     is     SEEKING 

TO  DEVELOP  AND  PROMOTE  A  BROADER 
PLATFORM  FOR  THE  COMMERCIAL  AND  IN- 
DUSTRIAL LIFE  OF  THE  TOWN,  AND  TO  TAKE 
LAKE  FOREST  OUT  OF  THE  RURAL  CLASS, 
AND  MAKE  IT  FAIRLY  DESERVE  THE  NAME  OF 
CITY.  THE  THINGS  THAT  ARE  TO  SURELY 
COME  IN  THE  IMMEDIATE  FUTURE  ARE  MORE 
AND  MORE  BEING  BORNE  IN  ON  THE  COL- 
LECTIVE MIND,  NO  LONGER  AS  LUXURIES, 
BUT  AS  CONVENIENCES,  AND  IN  SOME  CASES 
EVEN  AS  NECESSITIES.  THE  SUMMER  OF 
IQl6  WITNESSED  THE  BEGINNINGS  UNDER 
MR.  ROOT,  OF  A  SCHOOL  OF  LANDSCAPE 
GARDENING  AND  ARCHITECTURE,  WHICH  IS 
TO  BE  ASSOCIATED  WITH  THE  COLLEGE,  AND 
IN  THE  AUTUMN  OF  THE  SAME  YEAR  A  COM- 
MUNITY CHORUS  WAS  ESTABLISHED  UNDER 
THE  DIRECTION  OF  MR.  WILLIAM  PHILLIPS, 
BARITONE  OF  CHICAGO,  A  LAKE  FOREST  ACADEMY 
AND  COLLEGE  PRODUCT,  AND  NOW  IN 
CHARGE  OF  THE  MUSICAL  INSTRUCTION  OF 
THE  COLLEGE.  THE  YEAR  IQI7,  WHEN  IT 
COMES,  WILL  BE  WELCOMED  BY  THE  NEW 
LAKE  FOREST,  WHICH  HAS  ALREADY  ARRIVED. 


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